Assuming this is a common in a cycle with Shade Haunt? I like the simplicity.

Ah, yes. Whoops. I like the simplicity, too. I find it funny how we design so many complicated and overblown cards that we probably wouldn't play with. I'd play this, though. I'd probably play it in, like 50% of the decks I make... assuming I didn't care about the low power level, which I generally don't.

Hmm. I don't play New Benalia much, and that costs like this (i.e. it ETBTs) but only takes up a land slot. So I can't think I'd play this very much.

That's fair. But you normally compare New Benalia to other lands that come into play tapped. It competes for space with cards like Arcane Sanctum and Celestial Colonnade. The question here is, how does this compare to 1cc blue/black common creatures? I did a quick search of 1cc common etb creatures, and found very few, oddly. I think we can agree that Maggot Carrier and Merrow Witsniper are not good cards to compare this to, since they have such a low power level. Wingcrafter seems unfair for the opposite reason.

Really, this card looks about as good as Hapless Researcher to me, which is what I was thinking when I first made the card. Unlike the researcher, you don't get to use the card immediately when you activate it, but you probably won't activate the Researcher on the round it comes into play, anyways. I can see them reprinting Researcher.

Edit: Oh, I eased my restrictions and got back the 4.17 community rated card Sage of Epityr (well, also Accursed Centaur. Let's pretend we didn't see him, though). Yeah... I'd compare Browse 4 to Scry 1.