That will, sadly, still have the same problem right now. The cards aren't good enough individually to take something like an AST over a Scholar. If you want more DPS, the cards need to directly compete with the Fairy and actually beat it at its own game all the time, which they just don't. Even with secondary benefits, they'd still be trash, they just wouldn't be completely useless on top of it.

The issue the AST suffers from sadly won't be fixed by fixing the cards, either. It's a class without an identity. From the ground up, it was designed so that it could either replace the WHM or the SCH, but it wasn't made powerful enough to actually accomplish this for the obvious reason that if it can replace either, it will replace both. As others have brought up, the class just needs a complete rework to design it such that it's actually a unique healer apart from the Scholar and WHM, instead of trying to be a bad replacement for the SCH/WHM. The devs really messed up on this class.