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CardName: Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw Cost: 3U Type: Legendary Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Whenever you would draw a card, instead draw two cards, then put the top card of your library into your graveyard. Flavour Text: Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure. Set/Rarity: Harry Potter and the Gathering of Magic Rare |
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Hm. Thought Reflection++? It is legendary, but still, wow.
I wanted the founders' artifacts to be good, but yeah, in retrospect, this is kind of ridiculous. One problem was that I consistently overvalued self-milling as a drawback. My line of thinking was that self-milling is generally bad for you, so it should reduce the cost, and if you're playing a 100-card deck that doesn't really care about mill and/or a graveyard-themed deck that can actually use it for value (and this deck is both), well, that's just synergy and good deckbuilding and doesn't need to be accounted for in the cost. I also think I consistently undervalued repeatable card draw and believed Thought Reflection was overcosted.
That said, I've played with these decks a lot, and the Diadem has never really felt broken or overpowered, so...maybe it's an appropriate mythic? Splashy and shocking but not actually game-breaking.
Thought Reflection does seem overcosted, I'll give you that. It's costed around people who are doing crazy draw things with it, or using it to break the symmetry of looting etc. I can believe that this is fair in the context of its set.
I do think self-milling is generally a (small) benefit and should be costed as such, though.
It's a costing closer to mythic I believe (Note Alhammarret's Archive). As a rare, I wouldn't cost it anything under the cost of Honden of Seeing Winds. 4 mana, usually with some condition or multicolor is the minimum cost for a card that draws only one extra card per turn.
Maybe it could be something like "If you would draw a card or cards, instead scry 1/2, then draw those cards." (cf. Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar) or just simply "draw that many cards plus one".
Yeah, I've since come around to the idea that self-milling should be costed as a benefit (at least in small amounts like this -- obviously Leveler is still a drawback).
It's quite possible that the Diadem only didn't feel game-breaking because there aren't really any ways to draw a lot of cards in this deck. There's Specialis Revelio and...that's kind of it. If I had playtested this in a normal blue deck with lots of card draw, it would probably have felt broken and warranted a change.