i'm with u. How is this even close to that low. It thins ur dek, turns estates into useful cards.
It doesn't thin your deck, it replaces stop cards with other stop cards, and it is itself a stop card that requires you to get another stop card (Potion) before you can even get it. Turning Estates into Gold is not as great as it sounds when you can only start doing that on your third shuffle after adding in two glorified Curses to your deck.
I actually meant to respond to transmogrify. Didn't see someone the transmute part. yeah transmute is awful. And belongs at the bottom of any list.
But Transmogrify doesn't thin your deck either... unless you have Sewers!
In can be seen as thinning your deck more than Transmute, because no matter which type of card you trash for Transmute, you get a stop card back (Not counting Curses or Hovels). With Transmogrify, you often can gain a cantrip or other drawing card.