Carnage Interpreter

Discarding your hand is usually a downside a card has to buy back; here it is the whole business model. The entry trigger empties your hand and hands you four Clues, converting whatever you had left into a delayed, mana-gated draw-four that you pay off across future turns. That inversion is the design: the card wants you already spent out, having dumped your resources onto the board, so the discard costs nothing and the investigate is pure profit. The second ability closes the loop by rewarding the empty hand it created, turning a 3/3 into a 5/5 with menace the moment you hold one or fewer cards. Play it on an empty grip and you get the beater and the Clue engine with no tension between them; play it with cards to spare and you are choosing what you are willing to pitch for four artifacts and a bigger body. The friction sits in the mana: those Clues do not draw for free, so the payoff is real but slow, and a fast clock can punish you before the cards come back. It rewards the aristocrats-and-reanimator style of black-red deck that treats the graveyard as a second hand and would rather have permanents in play than options in reserve, the kind of build where discarding your hand was already half the plan.