Sorcery
Cleave (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Draw three cards. [Your maximum hand size is reduced by three for the rest of the game.]
Me and my playgroup think this looks pretty good. Secrets of the Golden City saw a decent amount of standard play, so the precedent of 3 mana draw 3 is powerful enough to risk it being a Compulsive Research sometimes. This only works in decks that can dump their hands a little faster, but our card comp for this has been a souped-up Chart a Course. This is certainly playable in reanimator, agressive strategies, and a variety of combo decks that just want more card draw. It's splashable, digs deep, can enable discard, is a lethal topdeck, and even has the cleave cost if need be.
With that said, that is one hell of a downside. There could be situations where the limited hand size comes back to bite you later, like if this is used to bin a Griselbrand or if this draws you into more card draw. Also has very bad synergy with cards like Lutri, the Spellchaser, Snapcaster Mage, flipped Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Eternal Witness, etc.
This is really interesting. It is less good than a compulsive research for pure control I think but if you support storm, reanimator, or even just spell slinger it becomes really interesting. A pure draw 3 for 3 is really good. I think I'm going to test it but have no idea how it is going to perform.
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Sorcery
Cleave (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Draw three cards. [Your maximum hand size is reduced by three for the rest of the game.]
Me and my playgroup think this looks pretty good. Secrets of the Golden City saw a decent amount of standard play, so the precedent of 3 mana draw 3 is powerful enough to risk it being a Compulsive Research sometimes. This only works in decks that can dump their hands a little faster, but our card comp for this has been a souped-up Chart a Course. This is certainly playable in reanimator, agressive strategies, and a variety of combo decks that just want more card draw. It's splashable, digs deep, can enable discard, is a lethal topdeck, and even has the cleave cost if need be.
With that said, that is one hell of a downside. There could be situations where the limited hand size comes back to bite you later, like if this is used to bin a Griselbrand or if this draws you into more card draw. Also has very bad synergy with cards like Lutri, the Spellchaser, Snapcaster Mage, flipped Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Eternal Witness, etc.