CardName: Barbarian Bully
Cost: 2R
Type: Creature - Human Barbarian
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Rules Text: Discard a card at random: Barbarian Bully gets +2/+2 until
end of turn unless a player has Barbarian Bully deal 4
damage to him or her. Activate this ability only once each
turn.
Flavour Text: “Out of my way!”
Set/Rarity: Magic 20XX Common
Barbarian Bully
C
Creature – Human Barbarian
Discard a card at random: Barbarian Bully gets +2/+2 until end of turn unless a player has Barbarian Bully deal 4 damage to him or her. Activate this ability only once each turn.
I made sure both red and black had one card that you could pitch cards to liberally, but not make the action automatic. I understand why Odyssey block would include cards like Putrid Imp... because that block was focused on the graveyard and discarding cards. For Threshold and Madness to be relevant, you would need to have cards that made it simple to do. You don't want to be jumping hoops for block identity.
Hellbent in 20XX isn't that, though. There's probably 10 commons total in 20XX that have Hellbent, and not much else that needs you to have a graveyard. Therefore, I don't want to make dumping your hand an easy thing to do. Getting rid of the cards should be a journey, which players have to work to get right. Barbarian Bully is the fastest common shortcut to get there, and you still have to wait a couple rounds to toss them all away, if that's what you want.
I made sure both red and black had one card that you could pitch cards to liberally, but not make the action automatic. I understand why Odyssey block would include cards like Putrid Imp... because that block was focused on the graveyard and discarding cards. For Threshold and Madness to be relevant, you would need to have cards that made it simple to do. You don't want to be jumping hoops for block identity.
Hellbent in 20XX isn't that, though. There's probably 10 commons total in 20XX that have Hellbent, and not much else that needs you to have a graveyard. Therefore, I don't want to make dumping your hand an easy thing to do. Getting rid of the cards should be a journey, which players have to work to get right. Barbarian Bully is the fastest common shortcut to get there, and you still have to wait a couple rounds to toss them all away, if that's what you want.