It has trample to help ensure you get the effect off, and in multiplayer games, odds are you will be able to hit at least one of your opponents
Though this does mean discarding the other cards you reveal, there are numerous ways this can pay off, especially as youre going to play a card thatd normally cost up to 6 Ink for absolutely nothing (well, except the cost of losing the other three cards you draw, of course!)
It has a simple ETB ability to draw a card for each 2/2 base power/toughness you control
Finally, to make the narrative of the card more explicit, the so-called flavor text in italics reads Great literature can transport the reader. A relatively new addition to the world of Magic the Gathering is the online version of the game, called Magic Arena, released in 2018
(As it sucks souls, this may represent your increased power as the game goes on.) Here are some quick brainstorm ways (that may not work if play-tested, or at that three mana cost) that would have been Blackbladed
Field of the Dead completely warped the Standard metagame