Hm.... iiiiiiinteresting card.
Why does it have Empires-like art? Or maybe that was unintentional and the pillars just remind me of Empires.
At first glance, it doesn't look particularly good. Slowly trash your coppers and occasionally gain a...
Oh, wow, while typing I just realized this card's actual potential. The comment above me meant "trash" a Gold, not "discard" it.
So the strategy here is to keep trashing Golds to gain $5 cards and more Golds. So it's like Lurker in that it can slowly gain powerful cards. And then it can also trash coppers. You might want to get more than one: One to gain the good cards, the other to get rid of junk.