Hunger of the Nim

Affinity logic pointed at a single attacker's power. Where most pump effects scale with creatures or hand a flat bonus, this one reads your battlefield's artifact count and converts it directly into damage, which makes it a finisher in any deck already flooding the board with cheap artifacts. The sorcery speed is the honest part of the bargain: this is not a trick you ambush a blocker with, it is a precombat decision that commits before attackers are declared, so the kill has to be planned a step ahead rather than sprung. The math is the whole bet. In a board with a fistful of equipment, affinity creatures, and trinkets, +1/+0 per artifact turns a token or a mana dork into a one-shot threat, and the toughness staying untouched tells you exactly what the card is for: it pushes a single unblocked attacker past lethal, not into favorable trades. The black framing is the wrinkle. Black rarely gets reach on this axis; pairing it with an artifact engine hands the color a closer it otherwise has to fake with drain or evasion. The ceiling is enormous, the floor is a blank that grants nothing on an empty board, and that asymmetry is the correct shape for a payoff built on a count: it does nothing until you have already done the work, then it does everything at once.