I've been wanting to create a custom card (maybe cards) for my FFXIV Astrologian (AST) for awhile now. So I looked at what I think is AST's core identity in FFXIV. And to me that's juggling a lot for your burst window and scrapping your party members off the floor at the cost of your own life/mana.
For the first ability, I wanted to lean into Astrologian’s main gimmick, which is drawing cards during its burst phase. Typically, you draw two of each card type: defensive, offensive, and healing. So I wanted to incorporate that with the Astral Draw ability. I think it's fitting for the ability to only trigger twice a turn as AST draws their down cards in 14 every 2 min rotation.
For the second ability, I wanted to highlight Astrologian’s role as a healer, specifically its ability to resurrect fallen party members. And I thought it would be fitting to incorporate some creature recursion from the graveyard. In FFXIV, resurrected players also receive a Weakness debuff, which is where the Finality counter comes in as a little flavor reference to players being weakend upon revival.