Card selection, which doesnt put you up a card but allows you to make some choices about the cards you do draw, isnt quite as good, but it can become so if its easier and/or cheaper to use or if it synergizes, and it provides a discard outlet
What is the best/most valuable card in IDW Comics Inserts
Tibalt the Chaotic I love the design on Tibalt
Against Jeskai Fires we can bounce Cavaliers or Kenrith, the Returned King for just two mana
Either you get to start turning creatures face up, put +1/+1 counters on a creature, or you get to manifest dread with additional counters and trample
Right now Im playing a playset even in Hammer Time, but I recollect playing this card in a lot of different archetypes, from UB control to Ad Nauseam, from Goblins to even Sultai Urza