While you don't want many cards that can't be involved in the game earlier on this is very much one of the best of such cards
Chandra: Liliana, you're two centuries older than me
With such a large world to explore, there could also be an opportunity for various side quests with a higher focus on collecting or hunting down rarer cards, showing that there is more to these trading cards than simply being a way to battle

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Its important to note that Grief is a much better topdeck than Thoughtseize in the later game, and having your disruption double as a threat in a pinch is a killer advantage
In this case, the sheet this card was printed on was inverted when it was printed