AST Card, between utility and optimisation

[Grimoire-M]

As in drawing 2 or 3 per minute instead of just the one per 30s (albeit it now on 2 charges)?

In essence, yes. Though it probably averaged to one and a half draws every 30s. You also had Royal Road and a 15s redraw (necessary for proofing) to worry about too and that meant you were somewhat encouraged to riffle your hand to keep it organized for clean setups, so I straight up did the same thing you suggested and allowed you to organize your hand with a bunch of actions that didn’t use GCD or oGCD space ala pets. For that purpose I also basically said ‘screw it’ and made the draw trait give you the optimal starting setup for the two major raid buffs (Reverse + Nocturnal Play, Noct in this case only allowing for DPS cards and Reverse turning Bole into TA, and a regular draw that would give you AoE balance) on job change/instance reset too.

I’d probably key the actual effects off of the Play actions to keep it consistent if I did it over in the name of accessibility. Think how Lord/Lady and the seals absorb a subset of cards and use that for certain effects and just describe those effects on those subsets rather than making them specific to each card and manipulating that accordingly.