I'm having success using this card with Hulk, who usually gets stuck with a card or two that he's going to be forced to discard. You can play this instead of discarding it so that the next round gives more cards. You can even play this as Hulk before switching to Banner to have 6 cards next round. It's not a fun play, but it certainly feels good to not get screwed over by Hulk's weakness.

Don't ask me exactly who is assessing the situation, because it certainly ain't Hulk. For now I'm considering this an auto-include for him.

Nova is the hero this card is meant for. Because of the mechanics of Connection to the Worldmind, Nova benefits from having extra card draw at the end of the player phase, rather than extra card draw during his turn. Of course, card draw is always good, but Nova doesn't benefit from it as much as you'd expect because the power of Connection to the Worldmind doesn't do much when it is drawn mid-turn, only at the end of the player phase. I've always found Assess the Situation to be an interesting card. But it's with Nova that it finds real synergy and power.

What's not immediately obvious is that this card doesn't give you an "extra" card. You had to draw it and play it to get that card, so it only pays for itself. For that reason, it's not good for characters with a small hand size, because on the turn you draw it your hand has even fewer options. If your normal hand size is 4, you're essentially getting a 3-card hand followed by a 5-card hand.

Characters benefit from this card if they want a big turn to "go nova." Characters that can pump themselves up and untap, like Quicksilver and Spider-Woman can use the bigger hand size to pump themselves up and untap in the same turn, multiplying the advantage of the cards in their hand. During the turn after playing Assess the Situation the advantage needs to be greater than what is lost by playing the card in the first place.