Arcbound Bruiser

A 3/3 body that exists mostly to be dismantled: the counters it carries are worth more on the way out than they ever are in play. Modular treats +1/+1 counters as portable equity, and this is the workmanlike middle rung of the keyword's range, arriving with all three already loaded so the live question is never what it does on the battlefield but where its counters land when it dies. That redistribution is the whole reason the design exists. The counters stack across a board, so a dying Golem can fold into a single oversized threat or feed a counter-doubling effect, and a chain of these small bodies can resolve into one large one. The discipline the keyword builds in is the recipient clause: the counters need a legal artifact creature to land on, and with no target the value evaporates, leaving you having paid full retail for a vanilla body that died for nothing. Where Arcbound Worker and Arcbound Stinger seed their smaller payloads early and cheap, this one trades up to a heavier counter battery you deploy expecting it to break apart later. It is less a card cast for its own sake than a deposit into a board you intend to consolidate, the affordable common-rarity component in a deck whose real plan is assembling one threat out of many.