Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge

A 5/4 flyer for three mana is a rate a dragon has no business offering, and the design pays for it with two clauses that pull in opposite directions. The attack restriction demands four artifacts before this dragon leaves the ground, which on its face makes the aggressive body inert; the end-step trigger then supplies the very artifacts that unlock it, minting a Treasure for every nontoken creature that died that turn. The tension is the whole engine: the card wants a board where creatures are trading and dying, an attrition grind rather than a race, and it converts that carnage into both ramp and the artifact count it needs to swing. That inverts the usual dragon math. Instead of arriving late to close a game, this one arrives early and asks the game to develop around it, hoarding Treasure while the ground stalls, then turning into a genuine clock once the count crosses the line. The result is a creature that reads as an aggressive threat but behaves like a value piece in the early turns, a grindy self-sufficient sacrifice payoff that happens to end games in the air when the board finally cracks open. It rewards a deck built to trade bodies and spend Treasure, which is a narrower ask than the raw stat line implies, and a more interesting one.