Academy Loremaster

Symmetry is the whole design gamble here, and it is a clever one. A repeatable extra card every turn is the kind of engine that normally costs four or five mana and comes wrapped in a body you have to protect; delivering it on a 2/3 for two means the tax has to be brutal, and it is. The extra draw hikes every spell that player casts that turn by two generic, which inverts the usual logic of a card-advantage engine: the more you draw off it, the more your mana constricts. What makes it genuinely interesting is that the tax lands hardest on the player trying to develop a board and lightest on the player content to sit behind it. Note the timing: the trigger fires on each player's own draw step, so nobody gets to bank a card on the opponent's turn. That constraint keeps the engine honest and keeps the tension where it belongs. A control deck happy to hold up an instant, cast little, and grind the game long pays far less friction than the aggressor across the table who wants to deploy three things a turn. And because the button is handed to your opponent on their own draw step too, the card rewards a shell built to punish extra cards rather than one that simply wants more of them. It is a Wizard that declares knowledge free and using it expensive, and it means exactly that.