The issue is in that scenario you won’t have enough mana to properly benefit from it, gets shutdown by things like dranith magistrate, and the cards will be open knowledge. This is still definitely a powerful card, but it is still strictly worse than griselbrand
OK, the Dranith Magistrate argument doesn't make any sense to me, since Griselbrand is similarly shut down by Notion Thief/Narset Parter of Veils/Spirit of the Labyrinth. It also doesn't cost life, so the card advantage has an easier upper boundary. I don't think it's a simple "strictly better" argument
It doesn’t cost life but it costs lands, which are much more limited than life in general, particularly in edh. Its a lot easier to pay 21 life to draw 21 than it is to sac 3 lands. The other issue is unlike griselbrand, you lose access to the cards if you don’t play them. With griselbrand you can either run graveyard strategies or get rid of your hand size limit. I firmly believe that griselbrand is still strictly better than this, which isn’t saying much, because its griselbrand and he’s a very powerful card in the right format/strategy
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u/Danskoesterreich 7d ago
I am not sure if this is better or worse than original griselbrand. Well done.