Eriette's Tempting Apple

Threaten effects have always been ephemeral: borrow a creature, swing, hand it back diminished only if you brought your own way to eat it. This design keeps that borrowing (the enter trigger hands you a hasted attacker for the turn) but attaches something a conventional Act of Treason never had: a body that persists as a Food after the theft resolves. What it does not do is solve the borrowed creature for you. Neither sacrifice mode targets the stolen permanent; both crack the apple itself, and at end of turn the creature simply returns to its owner. So the plan still wants a separate outlet, a Goblin Bombardment or a Viscera Seer, if you mean to keep what you took. What the artifact adds is a floor. If the theft alone got the job done, the apple lingers as a two-mana drain-or-lifegain that you spend on your own schedule, three life to an opponent or three back to you, whichever the board asks for. The fairy-tale poisoner reads through in the drain mode: their life total ticks down while you dictate the tempo. And because it enters and lives as a Food, it slots into the sacrifice-and-recur engines that count on the type, giving the card a second job long after the borrowed creature has gone home.