Create-A-Card Competition

They have a niche use and are otherwise nearly useless. I really don't think it would be cool to have a couple of them in a deck and have them wind up doing nothing because you burned away all of your mana pulling up NEXT TIMEs.

The other one's casting cost is in life and discard. Also, it's so limited that giving it any cost would be... hurtful.

Although together you could use them to pull up a kerpow or something, then use any last times in hand to deal more damage. I think they do add a lot more power to the spells in the metagame, making it more feasible to kill the opponent with them. It's still highly combo-riffic, and has some failure options and vulnerabilities, but it's a lot better than nothing.

But I do see your point and I meant for there to be some failure penalty on NEXT TIME, so I'm putting one there. It "Fails" if you don't have the mana to cast the spell it pulls.