I'm going to be doing something a bit odd - rather than discuss its benefits and downsides, I'm going to act if I was arguing for this card's use, then explain why it's not quite ready for competition.
First and foremost, this isn't a card you would main-deck. You would use this card as a side-deck against a very select few decks: mainly, anything using Hope for Escape.
Hope for Escape relies on having low life points in order to increase the amount of cards you can draw. Heroic Gift is a perfect counter to this, increasing your own draw while making any subsequent Hope for Escape plays useless. Moreover, you can chain this card to Hope for Escape, rendering their potential draws nonexistent.
Sadly, when playing against the type of decks that typically use Hope for Escape - Final Countdown, Self-Destruct Button and Exodia being the main ones - raising their life points back to 8000 from 2000 is extremely counterproductive. Your effort should be to kill them as quickly as possible, rather than exert more card advantage. If you're in the 2000 range, you're one strong attack away from victory. The only deck I could ever, EVER condone this card in would be in a deck that can easily OTK, or as a counter-side for those same three decks using Hope for Escape. Why use Heroic Gift as a counter-side? Your opponent will typically try to reduce their life points in any way possible once they know you're using Hope for Escape, and life points are irrelevant when you're using a special win-condition. This would be especially relevant for Self-Destruct Button decks, which need your opponent to have high life points.
So, odds are you'll never see Heroic Gift in play. Ever.
But if you do? It'll probably do some cool stuff and mess with your opponent.
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