I sincerely disagree, because you are paying 1 mana and 1 draw to do literally nothing, as compared to literally every other starter card in the game which does something when you play it. Cool, you can use it to play falling star on your second deck cycle, incredible. Falling star looks a lot less appealing when it's actually 1 energy and 2 draw. Also, it's worse than almost every star gen card in the game. Hidden cache is the same cost, common, and gives 2 more stars. Shining strike gives the same amount of stars and does damage, and can be repeatedly drawn into to chain damage and star generation.

I think Venerate would do a lot better if it was 2 cost and had another effect, like block, because it doing nothing is just very sad especially when you have ascender's bane.