Akal Pakal, First Among Equals
The trigger fires on every player's end step, not just your own, which is the wrinkle that separates this from the usual once-a-turn artifact payoff. Meet the condition (any artifact entering under your control at any point during the turn) and you get a look at two cards, keeping one and binning the other, once per opponent's end step plus your own in a multiplayer game. That reframes the card from a value engine into a graveyard-feeding one: the milled card is not lost so much as staged, which is why the effect sits comfortably in decks that want cards in the yard as much as in hand. The 1/5 body is the honest part of the deal. It is not attacking anyone, but it survives most incidental damage and the sweep of small removal, so it stays on the table long enough for a token-maker, a Treasure engine, or a steady stream of cheap artifacts to keep the trigger live. What the design asks for is density: not one big artifact but a reliable cadence of them, turn after turn, so the condition is met before each end step comes around. Build the board that produces an artifact every turn and this quietly refills your hand while the graveyard fills alongside it.
