While the basic premise remains the same, the story of the card game takes place on a much smaller scale, and you are playing through cards, using abilities and investigating to solve smaller cases
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Even if you do draw this early enough, you are using up this card, the discard cost, and your own effect that's being translated to hurt your opponent
Its potential is balanced by the concentration of value in a few top cards
Sword of Truth and Justice is another one that is pretty good with Venser as the commander since it gives him (conditional) evasion, proliferates, and adds +1/+1 counters to grow your creatures which the deck has very few ways of doing, but I absolutely would not spend $30+ for the card, it's not that good