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CardName: Fit of Insanity Cost: 3br Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: For each card in each opponent's hand, that player discards it unless they have Fit of Insanity deal 1 damage to them. Derange. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a Madness card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren’t cast on the bottom of your library in a random order.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Infinite Potential Well Uncommon
Fit of Insanity
   For each card in each opponent's hand, that player discards it unless they have Fit of Insanity deal 1 damage to them.
Derange. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a Madness card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren’t cast on the bottom of your library in a random order.) |
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See Instill Paranoia.
Do you intend derange to be a keyword action? In that case it is supposed to be part of a sentence an you are missing a period.
If you want it to be a keyword ability, then the reminder text is missing a timing clause/trigger (e. g. "When you cast this spell").
When I decided to come up with new subtypes for all card types I chose Insanity over Madness to avoid confusion with the existng keyword ability.
The issue with derange is that you don't have a mana value restriction, so now your madness cards are developmentally quiet impaired since they have to be balanced around the cheapest/most efficient card with derange you design - and vice versa your derange cards have to consider the most expensive effect of a Madness card.
You could just put the Madness card into your hand. That way mana cost matters again. Alternatively I recently mused on creating a version of cascade called <type> cascade; and I think, Madness cascade/Insanity cascade is actually quite an evocative keyword to put onto your card.
The original version of this mechanic just put the Madness card onto the battlefield, but I was concerned about targeting. I'm hoping that I don't need to worry about cheating mana costs, since the Madness cards are generally pretty reactive, and encourage you to include a bunch in your deck. The strongest one in a vacuum is the legendary creature, but that really wants you to run a lot of other Madness cards, which dilutes the pool.
Derange is a keyword action. You're correct there should be a period after it (although that breaks the automatic reminder text). A keyword action by itself on a sorcery is fine, since it just happens as part of the spell's resolution.