Demon's Jester

Hellbent always asked black aggro to do the one thing it hates: empty the hand it relies on for card advantage. This Imp is the cleanest payoff for clearing it. The reward is conditional and front-loaded, a 2/2 flier that turns into a 4/3 once your hand is gone, and the body it lands on is the point. Two power in the air is unremarkable; four power in the air, evasive and live the moment you topdeck nothing, closes a clock that an aggressive discard-heavy deck wants to be on anyway. The mechanic was a deliberate inversion of black's usual texture: where most of the color hoards cards (Sign in Blood, Phyrexian Arena, the whole drain-and-refill tradition), Hellbent rewards the hand you have already spent. That tension is the design's whole reason for existing, and a flier this modest is a safe chassis to test it on: low stakes if the condition never comes online, a meaningful upgrade when it does, with the four-mana price tag keeping the upside from ever feeling free. The trouble is that a creature only checks the condition while it is on the board, so the buff can wink in and out as you draw and dump, which makes it less a build-around than a thermometer for how committed you are to running yourself empty.