Viashino Skeleton

The regeneration shield here is built on a black mana cost and a discarded card, which is the first oddity: a red Skeleton whose survival trick is gated behind a color it does not share. Skeletons have carried regeneration as a tribal signature since the earliest sets, where it reads as the creature shrugging off death by knitting its bones back together, but most of them keep that ability in mono-black. Splicing the keyword onto a red body and then pricing the activation in turns it into a multicolor card in everything but the cost line: you cannot reliably defend it without black mana on board. The discard clause compounds the friction, asking you to spend a card from hand every time you want the 2/1 to survive a removal spell or a bad block. That is a steep tax on a body this small, and it explains why the card sits among the era's filler: regeneration only matters when the creature itself is worth protecting, and a 2/1 rarely clears that bar. What the design is really doing is rewarding red-black builds where the black mana is incidental and the cards in hand are expendable. Outside that narrow intersection, it is a small beater wearing a defensive ability it can seldom afford to use.