Coercive Portal

Voting mechanics turn a board wipe into a social negotiation, and this is the design that commits hardest to that bargain. Each of the controller's upkeeps puts a referendum on the table: let them draw a card, or blow up the world and take the artifact with it. The asymmetry is the engine. The controller votes first and wins on a tie, so left unchecked it becomes a four-mana card-advantage rock that quietly buries everyone else. The release valve is that anyone can vote for carnage, and the wipe is total: all nonland permanents, including the controller's own developed board. That converts the card into a perpetual question of whether the controller is ahead enough to be worth detonating. The trick is that carnage needs a majority, so the controller benefits from any standoff where no single opponent wants to spend their own board to stop the draws. The card is happiest in a shell that can shrug off the wipe (lands, recursion, a low permanent count) precisely so the threat of carnage stops scaring its owner and starts hurting everyone else. Will of the council always had a politics problem to solve, and this design answers it by making the artifact's own destruction the bribe: vote to kill it and you kill yourself too, vote to spare it and you feed the person who owns it.