Defiant Ogre

The modal enters-triggered artifact-breaker is a venerable common-rarity template, and this one shows why the shape endures: the choice is what keeps the card from ever being stranded. With no artifact worth answering, the ogre grows into a 4/6, a body sturdy enough to hold a board on its own. When there is an artifact to break, you forgo the counter, take the removal, and keep a perfectly serviceable 3/5. Because you pick the mode when the trigger goes on the stack rather than at resolution, there is a small wrinkle worth knowing: you commit to destroying a specific artifact before it can be sacrificed or bounced in response, so the removal line can whiff against an opponent holding priority. Neither mode is thrilling, but neither is wasted, which is exactly what the template is built to guarantee: it answers one of two questions the moment it lands and does something useful either way. The heavy cost keeps the artifact destruction incidental rather than the draw; this is a beater with a relevant utility button attached, a curve-filler that smooths out a deck without ever being the card that wins the game.