For something like MCC, Eloquent wouldn't be too hard but just a lot of work and requires some knowledge in OO (some). But each of your tables would basically require its own model and it would require a lot of altering in th model since MCC doesn't follow Eloquent's naming conventions.
With that said, I don't think Eloquent would be a good fit for MCC, it was mainly a bad joke ;)
And if MTG wants to step up and help like he said he would, that may be a bit cleaner than using the lib that I mentioned since your not used to (I am assuming) OO, method chaining, and objects