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Self-Discard

your own cards as a cost or an effect. Filling your own on purpose is the point: it feeds cards that bring things back, and abilities, and some cards are worth more there than in hand. Faithless Looting, Boseiju, Who Endures

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A tag is one thing a card does, on its own, in a vacuum. Tags are the building blocks archetypes are made of.

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MadnessA keyword that lets you cast a card for a different cost at the moment you discard it, instead of it going to the graveyard.Open the full glossaryChannelAn ability on some lands and cards that lets you discard the card itself to get an effect, so a land can double as a spell when you do not need the land drop.Open the full glossaryDiscardMoving a card from a player's hand to their graveyard. Some cards make opponents discard; others reward you for discarding your own cards.Mind RotOpen the full glossaryGraveyardThe discard pile. Cards that are destroyed, discarded or used up go here. In Commander plenty of cards bring them back, which is why graveyards are a resource rather than a bin.Open the full glossary