Glissa's Scorn

Green's claim to cheap, instant-speed artifact destruction is one of the oldest and least contested pieces of its color pie, and this is the version that bolts a small punishment onto the back of it. The destruction half is exactly the clean, no-strings answer green has always offered at this rate. The life-loss rider is the wrinkle worth dwelling on: it costs the caster nothing, it is not damage (so it slides past prevention and around any "damage can't be dealt" effect), and it shaves a point off whoever controlled the artifact. That single point reframes when you fire the spell. Against a fragile combo shell, the unpreventable point can be the difference between a clean answer and an answer that also pushes the opponent one tick closer to dead; against a deck leaning on a key artifact, you take the piece and add a sliver of pressure of your own. The point is too small to build around and too automatic to ignore, which is the whole design intent: a punisher attached to an effect green is happy to cast regardless of the rider. It sits in the line of green's increasingly surgical artifact hate, answers that narrowed the gap between green's removal and the cheaper instants other colors keep on hand, while preserving the flavor of the color's hostility toward machinery. The result asks nothing of your board and nothing of combat math, and hands you marginal life-total pressure for casting the spell you already wanted to cast.