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Empty Hand, Empty Mind
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Commander

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Anje Falkenrath

Haste {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. Whenever you discard a card, if it has madness, untap Anje Falkenrath.

Creature
Anje Falkenrath (c19) 37

Commander

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Artifact

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Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Artifact
Grimoire of the Dead (c19) 213
Gustha's Scepter

{T}: Exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled. {T}: Return a card you own exiled with this artifact to your hand. When you lose control of this artifact, put all cards exiled with this artifact into their owner's graveyard.

Artifact
Gustha's Scepter (all) 120
Hazoret's Monument

Red creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Hazoret's Monument (akh) 229
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (c19) 214
Null Brooch

{2}, {T}, Discard your hand: Counter target noncreature spell.

Artifact
Null Brooch (exo) 136
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (rvr) 265
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (scd) 276

Artifact

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Creature

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Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (plst) UMA-122
Anje's Ravager

This creature attacks each combat if able. Whenever this creature attacks, discard your hand, then draw three cards. Madness {1}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Anje's Ravager (c19) 22
Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (pakh) 78
Argentum Masticore

First strike, protection from multicolored At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card. When you discard a card this way, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to the mana value of the discarded card.

Creature Artifact
Argentum Masticore (one) 393
Avaricious Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. At the beginning of your end step, discard your hand.

Creature
Avaricious Dragon (ori) 131
Big Game Hunter

When this creature enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Big Game Hunter (tsr) 102
Blood Scrivener

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Blood Scrivener (dgm) 22
Bloodhall Priest

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, if you have no cards in hand, this creature deals 2 damage to any target. Madness {1}{B}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Bloodhall Priest (c19) 188
Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289
Containment Construct

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. If you do, you may play that card this turn.

Creature Artifact
Containment Construct (neo) 243
Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Devourer (khm) 352
Ebondeath, Dracolich

Flash Flying Ebondeath enters tapped. You may cast this card from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Creature
Ebondeath, Dracolich (afr) 100
Glint-Horn Buccaneer

Haste Whenever you discard a card, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{R}, Discard a card: Draw a card. Activate only if this creature is attacking.

Creature
Glint-Horn Buccaneer (j22) 539
Grave Scrabbler

Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) When this creature enters, if its madness cost was paid, you may return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

Creature
Grave Scrabbler (c19) 117
Hazoret the Fervent

Indestructible, haste Hazoret can't attack or block unless you have one or fewer cards in hand. {2}{R}, Discard a card: Hazoret deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Hazoret the Fervent (akh) 136
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 324
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
Necrogoyf

Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card. Madness {1}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Necrogoyf (mh2) 398
Orcus, Prince of Undeath

Flying, trample When Orcus enters, choose one — • Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life. • Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Creature
Orcus, Prince of Undeath (afr) 388
Ox of Agonas

When this creature enters, discard your hand, then draw three cards. Escape—{R}{R}, Exile eight other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Ox of Agonas (thb) 318
Phoenix of Ash

Flying, haste {2}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Escape—{2}{R}{R}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Phoenix of Ash (thb) 319
Sauron, the Lidless Eye

When Sauron enters, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. {1}{B}{R}: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Each opponent loses 2 life.

Creature
Sauron, the Lidless Eye (ltr) 396
Sire of Insanity

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Sire of Insanity (dgm) 104
Skirge Familiar

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

Creature
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Soul of Innistrad

Deathtouch {3}{B}{B}: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. {3}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Soul of Innistrad (c18) 118
Stromkirk Occultist

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. Madness {1}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Stromkirk Occultist (c19) 153
Surly Badgersaur

Whenever you discard a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you discard a land card, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Surly Badgersaur (c20) 57
Witch-king of Angmar

Flying Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you. Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Witch-king of Angmar (ltr) 311
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, each opponent may discard a card or sacrifice a permanent of their choice. Zoyowa deals 3 damage to each opponent who didn't. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Creature
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue (lci) 312

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Enchantment

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Anthem of Rakdos

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn and this enchantment deals 1 damage to you. Hellbent — As long as you have no cards in hand, if a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Anthem of Rakdos (dis) 102
Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
Gibbering Descent

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life and discards a card. Hellbent — Skip your upkeep step if you have no cards in hand. Madness {2}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Gibbering Descent (fut) 66
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Tombstone Stairwell

Cumulative upkeep {1}{B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) At the beginning of each upkeep, if this enchantment is on the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in their graveyard. At the beginning of each end step and when this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

Enchantment
Tombstone Stairwell (mir) 149
Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Underworld Breach (thb) 161

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Instant

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Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (sta) 36
Dark Withering

Destroy target nonblack creature. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Dark Withering (dmr) 79
Fiery Temper

Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target. Madness {R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Fiery Temper (f16) 11
Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Instant
Insidious Dreams (tor) 66
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
One with Nothing

Discard your hand.

Instant
One with Nothing (plst) SOK-84
Tragic Fall

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Hellbent — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if you have no cards in hand.

Instant
Tragic Fall (mh2) 104

Instant

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Land

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Barren Moor

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (c21) 277
Castle Embereth

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {1}{R}{R}, {T}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Land
Castle Embereth (eld) 239
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c19) 237
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (lcc) 330
Forgotten Cave

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Forgotten Cave (c19) 243
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (c19) 246
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (ima) 237
Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 282
Immersturm Skullcairn

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Immersturm Skullcairn (khm) 263
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mid) 274
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (lcc) 343
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (2x2) 410
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (c20) 309
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (lcc) 353
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 272
Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (thb) 247

Land

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Planeswalker

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Chandra, Heart of Fire

+1: Discard your hand, then exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. +1: Chandra deals 2 damage to any target. −9: Search your graveyard and library for any number of red instant and/or sorcery cards, exile them, then shuffle. You may cast them this turn. Add six {R}.

Planeswalker
Chandra, Heart of Fire (m21) 283

Planeswalker

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Sorcery

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Avacyn's Judgment

Madness {X}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Avacyn's Judgment deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. If this spell's madness cost was paid, it deals X damage divided as you choose among those permanents and/or players instead.

Sorcery
Avacyn's Judgment (c19) 134
Behold the Beyond

Discard your hand. Search your library for three cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Behold the Beyond (soi) 101
Call to the Netherworld

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Call to the Netherworld (c19) 108
Cut

Sorcery
Cut // Ribbons (plst) AKH-223
From Under the Floorboards

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sorcery
From Under the Floorboards (c19) 113
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (c19) 121
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (tmp) 142
Murderous Compulsion

Destroy target tapped creature. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Murderous Compulsion (plst) SOI-126
Nightmare Unmaking

Choose one — • Exile each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand. • Exile each creature with power less than the number of cards in your hand.

Sorcery
Nightmare Unmaking (c19) 20
Terminal Agony

Destroy target creature. Madness {B}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Terminal Agony (mh2) 424

Sorcery

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Maybeboard

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Currency Converter

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {T}: Put a card exiled with this artifact into your graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

Artifact
Currency Converter (ncc) 81
Inti, Seneschal of the Sun

Whenever you attack, you may discard a card. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature. It gains trample until end of turn. Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until your next end step.

Creature
Inti, Seneschal of the Sun (lci) 156
Monument to Endurance

Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Draw a card. • Create a Treasure token. • Each opponent loses 3 life.

Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 237
The Grim Captain's Locker

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—{3}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Artifact
The Grim Captain's Locker (lcc) 82

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{"ops":[{"insert":"The Madness spreads and soon there will be nothing left but the desires of hell.\n\nThis is, as the Commander would indicate, a Madness deck that wants to go Hellbent. Hellbent is a little known ability that rewards you for having no cards in hand. There are few good cards that run that key word ability, however there are plenty that can reward you for having no cards in hand.\n\nIt has taken me 4 years to make, finding each card that either benefits from, or forces me to have, no cards in hand. The deck is nearly done and all I want to do now is remove cards that don't do much to maximize this crazy build.\n"}]}
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