A-Mishra, Excavation Prodigy

The rebalanced version exists because this Mishra's constructed shape leaned hard on the mana half: discarding artifacts into red produced ramp too easily, and the fix targets that clause without touching the loot. As it stands now, the ritual trigger fires only once each turn, which draws a hard ceiling on how much acceleration a single turn can generate no matter how many artifacts you shovel into the graveyard. That once-per-turn gate is what keeps the card a value engine rather than an acceleration outlet you can chain. The loot itself is unchanged and does the quieter work: repeatable, cheap, and indifferent to what you discard, so you can filter a clogged hand or set up the graveyard at your own pace. The interplay between the two abilities is the whole design. The first ability wants any card in hand; the second only pays when the discard is an artifact, so the deck is built to keep the second ability fed by feeding the first the right fuel. The body is a fragile 2/1 that trades down to almost any interaction, meaning the card lives entirely on its activations and the sequencing around them. Rebalanced printings are the closest Magic gets to a public design revision, a second pass at the same character with the numbers Wizards would rather have shipped, and here the correction is one clean lever: the mana trigger's leash, not the loot.