Talk:An Encounter with a Dragon/@comment-10483040-20151028024709/@comment-1755882-20151028161816

Tyrant, what are you on about? Paying 2 life is ideal, because it doesn't cut into the gauge you might want to call whatever you're searching. And while Burn Nova searching is a thing, I don't think its powerful enough to justify overcosting this card. Because of the "kill everything" factor of Burn Nova, its much more difficult to use him to pull off a comeback. Burn Nova is better suited to securing games that you had control of.

What I mean by this is because of life costs, more than any other deck, Ancient can be cheesed out of a game via effect damage, despite being in complete control of the match. However, in these situations, if that Ancient World player is able to survive and launch a series of 3 more attacks with Burn Nova? Chances are, the opponent lacks the resources to hold on.

So because of that I don't see the ability to search Burn Nova as grounds to make this the worst searcher in the history of the game.