Additional thoughts on hellbent/madness. Variant of one-sided Wheel of Fortune/Shattered Perception.

No clue (heh) on appropriate cost/rarity.

Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2019-07-15.

Oh, that's a really good idea for a card. Maybe too cheap despite all the clue activations (it is, after all, the fastest way to get Metalcraft I know of.) And probably belongs in blue. But if I saw this printed in a real set, I wouldn't have questioned it. I just would have played with it.

Hmm, yeah this is interesting. It's red-style looting though; discard then draw. But it is potentially a lot of it :)

Dropping this on your first turn, to get 6 artifacts straight into play seems kinda a bold move though.

True. I'm more thinking of the damage this can do on round 4 with four cards in hand. It makes one heck of a ritual with Krark-Clan Ironworks, that's for sure. I'm not saying it's broken at one. I'm just saying I'd consider it my job to try to break it, if I was on development.

Oh, also, red doesn't tend to get card advantage. That's why I mentioned this should probably be blue. It's not 'discard a card, then draw a card.' It's 'discard a card, then draw two cards.'

I put this card in the Aggressive Mining category of card advantage through disadvantage. This also works best when you are flooded with lands/mana as well. To break even after discarding four cards you already invest a total of eleven mana.

That's a rate I'm comfortable with if the prerequisite is to first go hellbent i. e. it's not "discard a card, then draw two cards", it's "discard a card*, then get two opportunities at cards eventually" where the * also includes that you actually always invest more than one card per two Clues.