Faithless Looting saw you draw and then discard two cards, and it cost a card to do so, here you discard and draw two cards
The constant tax effect is annoying as hell to play against, and the 2/1 first strike body is relevant
I also suggest the combo of Sanguine BondSanguine Bond and Exquisite BloodExquisite Blood, as well as Wound ReflectionWound Reflection and Fraying OmnipotenceFraying Omnipotence
Those Spiders also have Menace, so they can be quite intimidating attackers sometimes too
Before this set, quest counters were only available to enchantments, so Ill be looking for a way to break this with cards like Goldberry, River-Daughter
However if you read that piece of rules text again and discover that the limit on cards you can draw is not just on how many creatures you hit with, but potentially more in a dedicated counters deck, that things start to look a bit better