Mummified Hand

Mummified Hand refunds tempo at the exact moment expensive setup would normally stall the fight. In a power-heavy shell one free cast often means the engine starts before the enemy gets a real window.

In decks with few powers the relic is just a rumor. Random zero-cost hits sound great, but if they rarely happen or land on low-value cards, the run is carrying a famous relic that is barely doing work.

The relic becomes run-defining once your hands regularly contain a power plus a card you would love to cast for free. That breakpoint only matters if it changes route greed, opener quality, or the fights you can safely take next. If that shift is not changing a real decision right now, the premium story is mostly cosmetic.

The clean homes are Echo Form, Barricade, Wraith Form, and any expensive setup card that would normally consume the whole turn. Mummified Hand wants a shell that can cash the upside on the same turn or the same cycle it matters. Those decks convert the text into tempo, stability, or a faster kill clock instead of waiting several fights for the promise to come true.

It is poor in attack-only or very low-curve decks where random discounts have little upside. Those are the shells that make Mummified Hand look stronger in draft than it feels in play. Mummified Hand either arrives too early, lands too late, or asks for support the run never actually built.

This relic rises on routes where long fights, elite scaling, or boss engines reward one explosive setup turn more than steady fair play. If the shell still lacks power density, adjust future drafting before counting Mummified Hand as solved tempo.

A clean Mummified Hand deck has Echo Form, Barricade, Wraith Form, or multiple expensive powers that would normally eat a whole turn. In that state the relic is not just good. It is the thing that lets the deck cheat the normal setup tax.

The trap is seeing the relic and immediately drafting every slow power without checking whether the shell still has room for payoffs and defense. Mummified Hand rewards a power deck. It does not automatically create one.