Diresight

Black has been paying two life to draw two cards since Night's Whisper set the template, and the rate has barely moved because it barely needs to: three mana, two cards, two life is the number black card advantage costs. What this version bolts on is the surveil first. That reordering matters more than it reads. Drawing blind means whatever sits on top is what you get; surveil 2 before the draw lets you bin dead lands, set up a delirium or threshold count, feed a graveyard the deck actually wants to fill, and only then commit to the two cards you keep. The sequencing (look, filter, then draw) turns a flat refill into a shovel: it does not just replace the cards in your hand, it curates the library and the graveyard at the same time. The life loss is the honest cost, unchanged from the cards it descends from, and it keeps this from being a free engine in every black deck; you pay in the resource black is always happy to spend. It is a small, deliberate upgrade to a very old effect, the kind of iteration that shows how much design room still exists inside a twenty-year-old rate once you decide the order of operations is the interesting part.