I would absolutely prefer to have StB AST back.

That said, performance aside, I'm having more fun with AST than I did in ShB or EW, and I went into it with negative expectations.

Sure, a lot of the cards are useless or identical to tools we already have. But the fact that we kind of 'use them or lose them' makes me just burn them more and think about the most useful of the wasteful options.

I agree that there should be an element of RNG back, but all things considered, this incarnation isn't so bad.