Goblin Replica

An artifact-saturated environment created a deckbuilding bind: every player needed artifact removal, but a maindeck answer that did nothing against the rare artifact-light opponent was a dead draw. The Replica cycle solved it, giving each color a single-use spell stapled to a body. The red entry destroys target artifact, folding Shatter-style maintenance into a 2/2 that can also block, chump, or swing for two while you wait for a target worth spending it on. That dual-mode framing is the whole point, and the cost of the flexibility is steep on both ends: for a below-rate body, then more to cash it in, so the destroy effect runs genuinely expensive relative to a dedicated removal spell. What the premium buys is optionality. On boards where nothing needs answering, the ability sits unused and the creature stays a live threat. And because the destruction is an activated ability you control, it sidesteps the failure mode of a permanent answer like a dedicated artifact-hate enchantment: there is no window for an opponent to remove the answer before it resolves, since you sacrifice the creature in response to whatever they do, choosing the moment yourself. This is artifact hate disguised as a creature, a design that assumes every opponent will run artifacts worth shooting. The Replica turns the dead draw that a narrow removal spell would have been into a body that always does something.