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 ;)
Posted By:
Mode
(9/14/2010 8:04:52 PM)
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)
Posted By:
brunsbr103
(5/18/2011 4:33:44 PM)
So many times I've paid just 
for this. Uber.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(9/9/2011 8:14:46 AM)
Darksteel Relic are free artifacts, free to set in and helps you do a freakin steal.
Posted By:
BarlowEnter
(12/3/2011 9:16:57 AM)
Back in the day 1 blue mana got 3 cards
Posted By:
mlanier131
(6/27/2011 9:45:08 PM)
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
Posted By:
Baconradar
(9/9/2010 7:31:59 AM)
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
Posted By:
omni8000
(2/3/2012 6:21:51 AM)
Strictly amazing.
Posted By:
Continue
(6/13/2013 3:08:45 PM)
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.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(1/2/2014 12:13:33 PM)