Delightful Discovery

The cost reduction here is a wager on the opponent's own activity: printed at five mana for scry two and draw two, it drops a mana for every spell they cast during the turn, which turns their tempo into your discount. That reframes what looks like an overcosted card-advantage instant into a reactive tool that gets cheapest exactly when you most want to be interacting. Left to your own turn it is a flat, expensive refill; held up on the opponent's turn against a spell-heavy draw, it can resolve for a fraction of its face cost while they are busy committing to the board or the stack. The design leans on a specific window: because the reduction reads spells cast this turn, casting it late in an opponent's turn (after they have emptied their hand into combat tricks, removal, or a counterspell war) rewards patience over any proactive plan. The scry two before the draw is the small hedge that keeps the two cards from being blind, letting you dig toward the answer the opponent's spells just told you that you need. It only makes sense against an aggressive or spell-dense opponent; against a durdling control mirror it never gets cheap, and the card is built entirely around punishing the former while merely paying full price for its refill against the latter.