Tormenting Voice

The trade is the whole point: pitch one card you don't want, get back two off the top. Red's color-pie deal with card advantage has always been this kind of rummaging rather than clean draw, and this sits among the cleanest two-mana expressions of it: no scry, no random discard, no rebound clause, just discard-then-draw at the lowest practical rate. The discard is an additional cost, paid before the spell resolves, and that is the drawback baked into the rate. You commit a card to the cost before you see what the two draws bring, so a counterspell turns this into a 2-for-1, and you are filtering blind in a way that Faithless Looting (draw, then discard) is not. What it buys for that cost is real: aggressive red and spell-velocity decks keep their gas flowing without spending much tempo, and it doubles as a graveyard feeder when the card you ditch is something you would rather cast from the bin than hold in hand. Cathartic Reunion pushes the same idea further (discard two, draw three) for the graveyard crowd; Faithless Looting filters at one mana without the net card. This one holds the honest middle: it costs you a card in hand but replaces it twice over, asking nothing of the cards involved beyond your willingness to part with the worst one. Plain, durable, and exactly as good as the card you are throwing away is bad.