Ramp usually involves putting lands from your deck onto the battlefield, mana dorks, or mana rocks to generate extra mana ahead of the one land per turn curve
While discarding cards isnt ideal, it becomes beneficial when your win conditions include cards like Past in Flames and Underworld Breach
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This deck will not be able to beat the fastest lucky aggro decks, decks with a lot of haste, and likely some others, but at least you'll usually be able to not-die for a long time, that's kinda fun
Assuming that you can get around the tough Grixis casting cost requirements, this is a two-for-one almost every time you play it regardless of what happens next