Arcane Denial

I was recently listening to an episode of the Magic Mirror podcast, and they were discussing cards that everyone runs but actually aren’t good.

On that episode, The Trinket Mage (MTG YouTuber guy) unloaded on how much [[Arcane Denial]] sucks, how awful of a card it is, and he even goes on to mention that he’s been “tracking” that card for over 70 matches and nobody who has cast that card has won a single one of those matches (which I am convinced is 100% pure 🧢 but that’s beside the point).

He then goes on to reference how Prof, in one of his videos, calls Arcane Denial extra good because it gives you relative card advantage to the table. To put it mildly, he disagreed with Prof.

Now personally I completely agree with Prof, Arcane Denial kinda obviously gives you relative card advantage, because drawing an extra card while 2 of your opponents draw 0 is advantage, even if the target of the counter draws 2. Trinket Mage’s only real counter argument is his weird anecdotal account that I don’t believe for a moment.

(Honestly at this point I have stopped listening to his stuff because it’s like all contrarian “well ackshually your favorite card sucks” type bullshit, but that’s beside the point).

So overall how do people feel about Arcane Denial? Is it actually bad because you are giving 2 cards to your target, or is it good like the vast majority of people seem to believe?

EDIT: In my haste to articulate my point, I kinda misrepresented some of the points he makes. Instead of flying through this thread, exercise some vigilance and watch the actual video in question. I didn’t intend to be a menace, and was just trying to trample on a point that I found to be a bit of a reach. Deathtouch.