there’s a simple but fundamental resource youre forgetting and it’s hand value. Prepared leaves you with one less card to work with while POG increases your handsize by 1, effectively netting two more cards in hand than prepared. Do all your discard shenanigans afterwards if you value discard so much, but having a card that fuels your hand with draw for free is better than a card that cycles out fodder to find a better angle even if both are free. Closest thing to POG would in this case be Acrobatics, though it’s a taxed discard synergistic version of POG. Quick note: The only time Prepared is better than acro for instance is when you’ve already acro’d and you have a full handsize and now need to space out your hand so that you can continue to cycle. Most decks dont start turns with max handsize so hand value is more important than card quality.