While it comes with the downside that an opponent gets to make you discard two of the cards you searched for, players can mitigate that downside either by building their deck to play cards from the graveyard, or by bribing their opponent to let them keep the cards they most want
A similar effect would be if maybe one of fairies used an acorn top as a helmet
Contents: 15 Magic: The Gathering cards plus 1 Traditional Foil double-faced token
The poison counter clause is good here in the same way it is on Prologue to Phyresis, but of the two, this is probably the weaker one
First strike was adopted as an evergreen ability, which means that it may be used in any set and often doesnt have any reminder text to explain the ability
There are just so many easy ways to force your opponents to discard their hands or sacrifice their creatures, like with Fleshbag Marauder, Accursed Marauder, Chainers Edict, Plaguecrafter the list goes on