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Misty Knight, Hero for Hire

Misty Knight, Hero for Hire

Legendary Creature — Human Detective Hero

Misty Knight wants a deck that throws away its own cards on purpose for a reward. It also works in a deck built around Detectives, Heroes or Humans.

  • Mana cost1 genericred
  • Red ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 1
  • RarityUncommon

2 generic, tap, Discard a card: Draw a card for each card you've discarded this turn.

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Cards That Fit Misty Knight, Hero for Hire

Picked for what they do in Misty Knight's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Misty Knight's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryRPlayers write colors as letters: R for red.Madness/DiscardDiscard decks throw away their own cards on purpose and play cards that reward each discard. Cards with madness can even be cast for a different, usually cheaper, cost at the moment you discard them.Open the Madness/Discard pageLootingDraws and discards in the same breath. Faithless Looting, Frantic Search. It does not gain you cards. It improves the ones you have, and fills your graveyard on purpose, which is exactly what a reanimator card like Animate Dead wants.Open the Looting pageSelf-DiscardDiscards your own cards as a cost or an effect. Filling your own graveyard on purpose is the point: it feeds cards that bring things back, madness and channel abilities, and some cards are worth more there than in hand. Faithless Looting, Boseiju, Who EnduresOpen the Self-Discard page