mtg direct damage cards Rules Text: damage, each creature, Colors: Red, 212 start #_(You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs Top Ten Red Direct Damage

It also rewards you for equipping legendary creatures (like your commander)

Example: In a full mirror of the following Abzan list, I would want zero discard

Risen Reef is an Elemental Coiling Oracle that turns all your other Elementals into the same

Its also an Eldrazi, so it can fit into other shells or get some benefits from cards like Eldrazi Temple

Then, if Cloud has power seven or more, he creates two Treasure tokens, each with the effect Tap and sacrifice this artifact: add one mana of any color. Useful but nothing too exciting.

With more card draw, you can control games with cards like Organic Extinction, play huge spells like Wake the Past, and get your big creatures and planeswalkers like Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer and Ugin, Eye of the Storms more reliably