Innate

Innate is a card keyword indicating that the card always starts in your opening hand at the beginning of combat. Regardless of draw order or deck size, Innate cards are guaranteed to appear in your initial 5-card hand. Only one copy of each Innate card guaranteed this way — having multiple copies does not guarantee multiples in the opening hand.

Innate is extremely valuable for consistency, ensuring that key setup cards are always available on turn 1. Cards like Survivor (The Silent's starting card) and Eruption (Watcher) have Innate. When deck-building, adding Innate to cards via upgrades (some cards gain Innate when upgraded) can significantly improve the reliability of important strategies. Innate pairs especially well with cards that provide strong turn-1 setups, such as early Poison application or stance entry.