Quote Originally Posted by Bobsmiaw View Post
Astral Draw and Umbral Draw have a separate CD
So you can use them independently
The cost of using card is the loss of malefic during card preparation
While AST being overly busy is a pretty common complaint, I'd like it to remain somewhat busy. That's one of the things that pulled me to the class. Putting aside the question of balancing cards with the loss of AST's own damage, replacing spells with card draws would slow down the class significantly.

There are other ways to give players control over cards. AST still has undraw. That could be changed to something useful. Redraw could lose its random aspect and just become "change seal" or "change card to astral/umbral equivalent".

I'd like to see meaning given to seals. Right now they're just a carry over of the old RNG. I'd prefer if we could control what seals we stored to create a secondary buff. So for example, each solar seal would add maybe 1% damage reduction to cards played or to Divination. If you were expecting having damage, you'd draw 3 boles/balances. Such a system would work well with the redraw change I mentioned above that turned it into a seal change. That's just one way to provide additional control without button bloat.