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Drawing a card, when put on an otherwise random card, is worth 1 mana, that's how Blizzard evaluated it, really.

Ogre Magi -> Azure Drake ( Keep in mind the dragon tag didn't exist when these were made )

 Consecration -> Fan of Knives

Ancient of Lore sort of followed that logic, and was pretty much broken.

Low cost cards are an exception ( Novice Engineer, Shiv, Loot hoarder because it's a deathrattle ) because you don't want aggro decks to cycle, else they'll just endlessly play stuff and they'll never run out of steam because their hand size basically stays constant. Even then some still follow the "+1 mana" logic and are mostly, rightfully so, considered very powerful, e.g Power word : Shield, Mortal Coil, Thalnos...

 

The 1.5 number is from Arcane Intellect alone, and don't forget Mage has freeze mage and has proved numerous times to be able to go very wild on the aggressive side of things, which would quickly make you reconsider giving them cheap draw.

That is on the most viable side of things, that is ; Sprint and Laying on Hands share similar if not higher costs per card, which further points at that 1.5 cost not being widespread as you can somewhat claim 1.5 to round down to 1 in my previous examples, but doing so with Sprint's 1.75 - which can be argued to be higher because of Prep, granted - and LoH's 1.66 is tougher, especially when considering that that generous round-down would be mostly unjustified on the most powerful examples like Azure Drake, the old Ancient of Lore or Power Word shield.

I'm not the one making the mistake of reasonning in terms of flat numbers and not percentage, Blizzard is, if anything.

 

The Gadgetzan Auctioneer nerf looks very good, really, but the rest...

4 mana Fan of Knives is a dead card. Compare it with Hammer of Wrath which shares the 2 mana overcost to draw a card, but has an auto-include effect ( Pretty much no 2 mana 3 damage card in the game isn't an auto include ) unlike Fan of Knives which is an Arcane Explosion, an utterly unplayed card.

Si:7 agent would also probably go unplayed with 1 less stat ( If nothing else is given in return ). Versus Flame Juggler, you'd litterally be paying 1 full mana for 1 damage and deciding where it lands, on a combo card. Do remember rogue has a massive discrepency between going first or second ( The winrate is nearly cut in half when going first IIRC ), and SI:7 triggering combo or not is most likely one of the biggest reasons for this, so don't underestimate the cost of Combo. SI:7 is a powerful card but this would most likely be overkill, so you'd probably at least have to make it deal 1 damage as an actual battlecry and have the combo increase that to 2 to compensate, and I'm not even sure that'd make it considering Undercity Valiant doesn't really work while being quite similar.

Defias Ringleader...I don't know. This card used to be more powerful ( 2/3+2/1 instead of 2/2+2/2, which can be argued to be worse because you would be able to ping neither of them on turn 2 ), and was pknown to pretty much force concedes on turn 2. Buffing it looks quite dangerous, though it hasn't been a problem for long, so maybe.

Backstab...Might work, but do consider Backstab is a prime combo activator because it's free, so this can have repercusions beyond the simple damage dilemma.

Im not sure Blizzard evaluated like that, there are other cards with different evaluations in them.

I took a quick look on all the draw cards and i have to say that from those cards that you can easily break down and dont have double edge added costs or effects that are hard to evaluate and provide immediate card draw, rougly, every card that has costed below 1,4 the card draw effect seems strong. Anything above 1,5 seems to not be doing that well. With special exceptions of course because other factors come in when you decide what options you have to add in ur deck. You can judge by urself. For me the healthy, honest number is around 1,5 and i base all my evaluations around it.

Fan of Knives that has the card draw costed as rougly 1 mana is too strong imo. With my evaluation Fan of Knives is 3,6-3,7 mana making it about 20% stronger than what it should be. 2 mana the aoe + 1,5 card draw + 0,1 flexibility of aoe plus draw + 0,05-1 class synergy (cheap spells, plethora or early removal). Similar power level of old Ancient of Lore.

SI:7 Agent change was a bit harsh and Defias Ringleader was bad now that i looked at it again but was mainly out of frustation because i wanted some viable 1-2 mana creature drops for rogue.

Backstab change was for synergy issues. Already rogue has another 0 mana spell that is efficient. It cn even free design space for future 0 card release. having 2 viable 0 cost spells in basic set seems too focused imo. Then again the combo activator argument makes sense.

Overall i had in mind to balance the cards around themselves and maybe future possibilities, not as stand alone. I think thats mostly the correct way.