You can draw, scry, exile, destroy, and do all kinds of other things at sorcery speed or instant speed, but countering spells has to be at instant speed because it interacts with the stack
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You get to draw X cards when you cast it, but you also get to gain X life
24 Spells Mox Diamond Land Tax Doomed Traveller Mother of Runes Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares Skullclamp Gather the Townsfolk Knight of the White Orchid Bitterblossom Stoneforge Mystic Precinct Captain Raise the Alaram Lingering Souls Spectral Procession Vindicate Sword of Feast and Famine Sorin, Lord of Innistrad Ajani Goldmane Hero of Bladehold Sublime Archangel Elspeth, Knight-Errant Elspeth Tirrel Mikeaus the Lunarch 16 Lands Scrubland Marsh Flats Caves of Koilos Isolated Chapel Godless Shrine Windbrisk Heights Karakas Swamp 8 Plains So, as with all mid-range decks it has lots of familiar high powered spells that for the most part are just dandy without any real support
Therefore, this card was almost certainly not printed before the release of Base Set
It doesn't enter the battlefield, so constellation abilities don't trigger