Braided Net // Braided Quipu

Craft asks an artifact to spend its front-face body before graduating into something better, and few designs make that two-stage economy this literal. Three net counters mean three activations, each one tapping a nonland permanent and, more importantly, shutting off its activated abilities for as long as it stays tapped. That clause does the heavy lifting: it doesn't merely stall an attacker or blocker, it locks the target out of any tap-to-activate engine for a full turn cycle. Spend all three counters and you're left holding a dead shell, which is precisely when craft becomes the exit ramp. Pay to flip it into the Quipu and the spent artifact becomes a draw engine that scales with your artifact count. The clause putting the Quipu third from the top of its owner's library, rather than into the graveyard, matters because it never commits you to a single big draw; it is built to come back around. But the loop is deliberately not self-contained. The Quipu returns as the front-face Net, so seeing the payoff twice means recasting the artifact, spending its counters or crafting it fresh, and paying again to exile another artifact for the second flip. That resistance is what keeps the value engine from spiraling. Both halves reward the same board: the more artifacts you control, the bigger the Quipu's draw, while the Net itself pads that count as you decide the moment to cash out.