How to Use a Card as a Resource in the Early Game?

There's different ways to sort of pay car s om a card as a resource. And it really matters sort of what zone you're paying it from. So, for example, if you're paying a card from your hand, meaning youre putting it from your hand into your graveyard. We have a word for that, that is discard. Discard effects are harsher than the graveyard because there's more ways to get stuff out of your graveyard than out of your library these days. Losing a draw is a big cost. Mbecausei is a pretty big cost. Am, mill is a smaller bit of cost. Usually if mill's a cost thing, it's more than one card