Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Affinity is usually printed on cheap, colorless enablers meant to flood the board early; hanging it on a nine-mana triple-red Dragon inverts the mechanic's whole purpose. The printed cost is the ceiling, not the expectation: in a heavy artifact shell it lands for a fraction of , and the flying, haste body arrives ready to swing the turn it resolves. That immediacy is the point of the attack trigger. Most impulse-draw effects hand you cards to spend across future turns; this one exiles five and demands you cast an artifact from among them right now, "this turn," before the window closes. The elegant loop is that whatever you find inherits affinity for artifacts too, so a board already dense enough to cheapen the Dragon keeps the discount rolling into the cast off the trigger. The self-referential design is deliberate: the more artifacts you control, the cheaper the Tyrant, the more artifacts you dig into, the cheaper they cost, each attack compounding the density that fueled the last. Where a card like Karn, the Great Creator or a Sanctum of All build artifact synergy through search and tutoring, this Dragon builds it through combat velocity, converting an attack step into a mana-advantaged dig. It asks for exactly one thing in deckbuilding: enough artifacts that the printed cost never matters, at which point the body and the engine both come online at once.