Asylum Visitor

The discard payoff that wants to be discarded. The 3/1 body is built for early trades, but the real pull is the madness cost: rather than committing two mana to play it from hand, you discard it to an outlet and recast it for when that line is convenient, converting a card you wanted to ditch into a body on the cheap. The upkeep clause then asks something specific of the deck around it, and the wording is the wrinkle worth reading carefully: the draw triggers on a player's upkeep only if that player has no cards in hand. Empty your own hand and you draw on your turn; the trigger reaches an opponent's upkeep only when the opponent is also hellbent, which is incidental, not the plan. The tension is that your engine only runs while you are out of cards, exactly the state an aggressive black deck reaches by the midgame anyway, and exactly the state madness wants you in: a hand-dumping plan that turns empty-handedness from a liability into a resource. The life loss is the meter on it. Left unchecked the draw will bleed you out in a long game, so the card rewards a deck that has already committed to the beatdown over the grind. Three pieces (cheap body, madness escape hatch, hellbent draw) all point the same direction, which is unusual coordination for a two-drop.