Dosan's Oldest Chant

The price is the whole problem here. Six life and a single card draw is a fair amount of value to staple together, but the floor a green sorcery has to clear to justify five mana is far higher than this clears. Compare the work to its color's own toolbox: green has long had life gain attached to bodies, ramp, and incidental triggers, so a do-nothing spell that only refills the tank and the hand competes against creatures that do the same thing while also affecting the board. The instant-speed flexibility that would let it ambush a burn-out kill or sandbag the card draw for a more useful turn is exactly what it lacks; sorcery timing locks it into the durdle phase, where five mana is most contested. What it represents is the kind of vanilla two-mode utility spell common to mid-era design, before development tightened up on charging premium rates for stapled-together value: the gain-life-and-draw template exists in cheaper, more efficient versions across green's history, and this one's rate never made the case. A reasonable inclusion in a deck that genuinely needs both halves and has nothing more pressing to do with five mana, which is a narrow and rarely-satisfied condition.