Very cute, actually! Too bad you didn't get to submit it in time.
Seriously... I saw the thread (on the day the ballot was announced), went off to take a bath and think about it, came up with the idea, came back, refreshed the page... and saw the ballot.
Since there's at least some dissent, my arguments for the $2 price point are as follows:
- It probably doesn't break anything on a 5/2 open.
- Precedent certain exists for possible-cantrip-with-minor-benefit $2 cards: Pawn (cantrip or other options that can be very useful situationally); Haven (cantrip + deck smoothing); Pearl Diver (cantrip + minor deck rearrangement). A plain cantrip is usually better than nothing at all (extra cards in your deck that insulate against certain attacks; can power Conspirators; can be KC/TR'd), but you usually aren't going to build an engine that really depends on having them, and you'll sometimes draw them dead. That makes sense for a $2 card IMO.
- You'd probably never want to open with something like this on a 4/3 split, even though you might with some other $2s (Chapel, FG).
(Edit so I'm not constantly replying: Yes, anti-Sea Hag is definitely a use case I had in mind. And yeah, Hamlet is neat.
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