Faithless Looting is still played as one of the best draw spells in Commander and Legacy nowadays, enabling graveyard decks and keeping the engine rolling
This does achieve some measure of randomisation
For this particular card, having Equipment attached to Cloud or any other Creature lets you draw cards, per equipped Creature
What's best about Sawhorn Nemesis in Graveyard Overdrive is that once the affected opponent dies , you can just cast something to recur it and then recast it for a different opponent
While Thousand-year Elixir and Tyvar can help you get tappin straight away, there are other instances where its actually pretty nice to have Sting, the Glinting Dagger

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