Better than Reviving Dose, and yet still barely playable. Nice.

This is meant as part of a common "cycle" of cheap cantrips. The idea is to provide an extra set of instant and/or cheap psyche enablers, since in Zaberoth most (not all, but most) of the cantrips cost a fair amount, or were sorcery speed.

Soothing Word may not be very good on its own, but cast an Angelic Aspirant with one mana up and suddenly it's something people have to play around - not for the incidental lifegain, but because an extra card draw is much more dangerous in this format.

The ultimate goal is for this card (and others like it - see Utter Rage) to not just be playable but actively important in properly built psyche decks.

Yeah, I like it. In most sets, even if it was playable it would be too boring to be printed, but if there's cards which combo with cantrips, there's interesting decisions in it.