Hello. This is a deck that I thought of last night, not gonna lie. It's a base, really, revolving around Hellbent. Anyone can build this deck and easily play around with the list. I imagine I went a little heavy on the discard, but really this is how I am going to practice building decks to play and enjoy.
Let's do a rundown of all of the cards I decided would be a best fit.
Non-basic Lands:
Obvious, and wonderful ability for an early hand dump. It's also a consistent source of damage. 4 sounds about right, and we can change it up if need be.
A menagerie of the spells you'll be playing are all about discarding, without a care who it is. 2 or 3 is a good number, as 1 is too many and 4 can be too slow.
A wonderful discard target, and part of a combo since we'll be playing Raven's Crime. 3 is okay- we only want them when we need them.
Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace. This is your starter for Hellbent. 1 is too few but 4 is too much. Like Howltooth Hollow, we want them to be helpful, but not be dependent. 2 or 3 is fine.
Emptying your hand:
This is a 3 mana 5/3 beater. Since you want to spew your hand as fast as you can, this card will definitely help you. The discard so early can hurt if you have cards with the Madness effect, but creatures with Unearth will come in handy later. We'll be playing 4
These are cheap suspend cards that can empty your hand turn one and be dangerous later, especially Mindstab. Whichever one you like most though, play 4 copies of.
It's a wonderful card for this deck. You get to Peek at your opponents hand and discard whatever. Ya know? 2 is okay, as we have plenty of discarding already
This card is much easier to cast with Howltooth Hollow. Granted, it's a challenge to get your opponents hand that small. But once you do, it's a joy
3. One for each Dakmor Salvage. It's a reusable spell that empties your hand AND your opponents.
This spell is a wonderful card to pitch to! One mana and a card to remove a blocker and carry on with life. I'll take 4, please
A tutor with a buyback cost of fuel? This card is too sweet to pass up.
With all of the discarding going on, what's the point if nothing is to benefit?
This card will forever be a wonderful card. And even more wonderful for this deck. If you can protect it with a Hideaway, you'll never have to worry about discarding it and can proceed to tearing apart your opponents hand.
With a ton of discard, you're bound to get some creatures in the grave. And with no other way of gaining life, Anthem of Rakdos can easily be your undoing without this
With 16 slots left, it's time to pick some juicy creatures.
She'll be taking up 2 slots. She has madness which can be wonderful to play into, but it's double black. You can never expect to always have double black at the ready.
Easy fodder for a quick discard that can unearth for the with. A miser's copy, since it's hardcast is 5. The effect can easily make itself up, though
Reckless Wurm
Also being a 5 drop, I don't want 4. But it's madness is the same as Scourge Devil's Unearth, and since it has trample I want 2 or 3. But for the list, I'll put 2.
I can't think of a reason not to play this card. This card is cheap, aggressive, and recurrable. And with a low cost for Unearth, you can easily pay the Unearth the turn after dropping an Avatar of Discord
Like Shambling Remains, it's too good to pass up for what it does. It's cheap and aggressive and almost guarantees damage.
This card has a lovely interaction with your graveyard. Try not to pitch it, because you can easily cast it for the red and get a Hellspark Elemental, Shambling Remains, a Scourge Devil, or even an Avatar of Discord. And if you target a creature with Unearth, you can get more than 2 uses by using Whip of Erebos on Crypt Champion to once again pull a monster from the graveyard. That's up to 4 uses of the same creature, multiple times! How is that a bad thing?
This deck will always lose to a steady control deck or a deck that can force out massive amounts of tokens. This sideboard can help you push through long-term strategies
This card handles graveyards and tokens perfectly. Or if your opponent is relying on an artifact for that last necessary source of mana or for the last bit of damage, you're covered.
This takes the place of Raven's Crime as necessary. It's very crucial though, that this spell is used to put you over the edge, since it will exhaust your mana
Since most of your creatures are black, this spell just makes sense. If you dredged away a Crypt Champion or have no way to return a Hollowborn Barghest to your hand, here you are.
This will easily and happily punish decks that lack immediate creature prescence the turn before an Avatar or Augermage.
If you just want to start chucking spells for cheap and hitting hard, there is no better choice. This card goes in if you start trading out creatures for spells, as he is recurrable and is very powerful when Hollowborn Barghest is on the field or under a Howltooth Hollow
Using TCGPlayer, the value of the entire deck (minus basics) is around $20.18, then shipping etc.
If anyone does decide to build it and play it, by all means, leave a comment and tell me how you feel about it. I'm slowly learning how to build good decks and feedback could help improve my skills