Chrome Courier

The impulse to bury a card while filling your hand is old (Sift, Chart a Course, and their kin all traffic in it), but this thopter reshapes the transaction for a deck that treats its graveyard as a second inventory. Revealing two and keeping one is a coin-flip you resolve yourself: you pick the card you want now, and the loser feeds a yard that artifact-matters decks are hungry to fill. The design tell is the life clause, which only fires when an artifact goes to hand, quietly nudging you toward the pile it wants you playing while still functioning as a plain filter when the tops come up blank. That conditionality is what keeps a three-mana 1/1 flyer honest: the body is negligible, the selection is real, and the incidental artifact-count and self-mill are the reasons to run it over a cheaper cantrip. It is a role-player built to reward a specific graveyard-and-artifact axis rather than to headline it, sitting comfortably in the lineage of blue-white artifact enablers that do their work on the way to the yard rather than on the battlefield.