Hm. Pushing the envelope a little, but this is still acceptable for a single white mana. Clever combination of numbers and ability.

Good 1CC cards are hard to come by in Magic. My best guess is that, over the years, Wizards has seen some abusive decks that prey upon strong 1 drops. But the end result of making weak one drops is that they don't matter in limited, where individual card quality trumps the card's relevance in a particular deck.

There's one way to deal with this, and that's to make a large number of good 1CC cards that aren't particularly powerfull on round 1. Then there's the other option... just make the 1cc cards powerful again. Have you seen some of the 1CCs for Magic 2012? The black and the red one is one point of unstoppable damage every turn. I know they want to push bloodthirst, but, wow...