Trumpeting Carnosaur

Discover is the mechanic that finally gave big-red fatties a floor beneath their swing. Historically, a six-mana 7/6 lived and died on the board: kill it, and the whole tempo investment evaporated with nothing to show. Discover 5 rewrites that math by tacking a cascade-adjacent free hit onto the enters trigger, so the body arrives with value already banked, and unlike cascade, discover lets you tuck the exiled card into hand if the free cast is not what the moment wants. But the more instructive design decision is the discard ability. For , the card discards itself from hand to deal three damage to a creature or planeswalker: burn where the fuel is the card itself rather than a spare card. That mode is the safeguard against the games where a 7/6 is simply too slow to matter. When the beater is what you need, you cast it and take the discovered payoff. When you need to point three damage somewhere and cannot afford to tap out for a Dinosaur, the same card becomes removal for plus discarding itself from hand. This is the split-purpose logic that top-of-curve red creatures spent years missing: a card that ramp and aggressive shells both want, but never one you are stuck holding. The discover trigger caps at mana value five, so it can never hit a copy of itself, and the exchange lands once the enters trigger resolves. Even if the body dies immediately afterward, the value is already in the bank.