[YDF] Benevolence's Treasure

[-Griffin]

So, I'm trying to make LP-recovery a bit more of a thing in the YDF than the TCG. Here's the first card that majorly benefits from it:

 

Benevolence's Treasure
Quick-Play Spell
Select one of the following effects. You can only activate each effect of Benevolence's Treasure once per turn.
1) Both players gain 500 Life Points. During the End Phase, add 1 Fairy from your Deck to your hand, and your opponent draws 1 card.
2) Activate during a turn you gained Life Points due to a card effect: Banish this card to draw 2 cards.

 

So, the second effect is basically a restricted Pot of Greed, and the reason you run this card. The first effect is a backup for when the card is dead, or if you're really desperate for that Fairy. Is the draw-2 too strong or are there no Decks that trigger it easily enough to run it and strong enough to be a problem? If there are any problem-Decks, what would be a balancing drawback to the second effect?

[Darj]

Not a fan of generic Type search from the first effect. Although it does come with the drawback of giving the opponent a free draw, it would still be a card waiting to be abused. How about searching for that Hyperion, Krystia, etc.?

I'm fine with the second effect and I don't think it would be too heavily abused. Usually you need other cards to recover LP, and that's how in theory this card would break even; it would also be an amusing way of, more or less, punishing opponent's "Upstart Goblins".

Of course, there are are a few monsters that recover LP, but still, the card would be bound to those monsters to be properly used.

[-Griffin]

I'm generally a fan of search because I like Decks being consistent, focusing on player's skill over draw luck, and using the randomness of draws to make new situations players need to figure out instead of deciding the game as hard. Would the -1 delayed search actually be strong enough to break any TCG Decks, running those Hyperion and Krystias?

[Darj]

In my opinion it wouldn't, since Agents are not that relevant. But I guess that Melodious could abuse it, since all they need is to set up their lock.

 

I'm a fan of searchers too, but still, I think searchers that can pick a monster of X type but any Level are slippery slopes because, again, they are more or less cards waiting to be abused. I mean, I'm fine with ROTA, Tenki and Gigant X, who pick Level4 or lower monsters, but I wouldn't say the same on King of Feral Imps. Yes, Imp King is not exactly being abused right now, but who knows when we will get a top tier Reptile-Deck with easy access to it.