Pointed Discussion

This isn't a 5/5 card guys. It may have been back in the days of affinity decks, but that was a pretty specific time.

It's still great, still a 4.5, but not a 5

So are you implying that card rating should include it's playability within the format that suits the edition it was printed in?
I normally rate cards by their overall usage.
But i think you have a point nonetheless...
Former new cards that were playable in a past Standard Format that doesn't exist anymore might have gained a better rating than they would deserve in Eternal Formats, or Block-Contructed - which includes a further Cycle and Core Set.

However, I can put this Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret reprint of Thougthcast still in an Affinity deck, so i'll give this card a 5/5 ;)

Dude, in any artifact heavy deck, especially in casual (which is where it will see most play now), this card will be costing 95% of the time, due to artifact lands, and the fact that there are so many cost artifacts. Great card, you'll almost never pay over for it even if you wanted to.

drawing 2 cards is pretty powerful. Tezzeret's Gambit won me more than one game at the New Phyrexia prerelease, and that card isn't nearly as good
And yes, I understand that these two cards are very different, they are just similar in my head (draw 2 cards, are blue sorceries, and are able to cost less mana)

Back in the day 1 blue mana got 3 cards

So many times I've paid just for this. Uber.

Darksteel Relic are free artifacts, free to set in and helps you do a freakin steal.

with 4 artifacts, its 2/3s an ancestral recall at sorcery speed. ancestral recall, being 5 times too powerful to begin with, means this is very good

Strictly amazing.

Quite the hoop to jump through for efficient card draw; though I admit it's a worthwhile hoop. I think this is quite a fair card actually.