redcap04, it's not. This is an instant, Divination is a sorcery.
Discarding cards is apparently the common price you have to pay for instant card advantage, as opposed to the slowones since these can't simply be played at the end of your opponent's turn in case you didn't need the mana that urgently to counter spells for instance.
redcap04
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Divination unless discarding a card gives you any advantage (i.e. madness)
EDIT: Sorry I missed this was an instant. Instant-Speed card drawing is definitely a different story.
Crag-Hack
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
I'd prefer running Thirst for Knowledge, even if discarding wasn't an advantage. Seeing 3 cards instead of two is far better. Discarding 2 cards is also far better.
Still, this is a decent limited card imo for smoothing out draws.
Salient
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Catatog would've been cooler than Catalog, as a 2/2 Atog with something like "Catatog gets +1/+1 whenever you draw a card and +1/+1 whenever you discard a card."
Bonus points for flavor text that makes graduate students frown.
rawsugar
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
compulsive research does what this does but better. difficult to see where the instant speed would matter.
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Discarding cards is apparently the common price you have to pay for instant card advantage, as opposed to the slow ones since these can't simply be played at the end of your opponent's turn in case you didn't need the mana that urgently to counter spells for instance.
EDIT: Sorry I missed this was an instant. Instant-Speed card drawing is definitely a different story.
Still, this is a decent limited card imo for smoothing out draws.
Bonus points for flavor text that makes graduate students frown.
Who says I'm such a bad guy?