Honestly to me these changes feel like they just took a soul of the class.
AST was all about those cards and I loved all of them. I'd always find a way to use different cards here and there.
Some people found certain cards to be useless well NOW they are TRULY useless because half of them are unnecessary since there are already cards that are the same, just have a different name. I don't see the point in having so many cards that do literally the same thing.
At least before it was interesting, I liked the RNG part, having to redraw or just using whatever RNG gives you and now you don't even need to look at what you got - draw a card and use it, done. This is just boring and pointless.
I'll probably switch to scolar now.