Ingenious Smith
Two engines bolted to one 1/1 frame, and they draw on the same fuel. The enters-the-battlefield dig finds it: an artifact from the top four cards, which in a deck built around cheap artifacts almost always hits. Then the counter engine feeds on that same fuel, growing the body once per turn as artifacts pile onto the battlefield. The once-per-turn clause is the balancing pressure: without it, a token-heavy artifact draw would inflate this into a threat that outstrips its cost by turn four, so the ceiling is a steady climb rather than a burst. What earns the design its keep is that the two halves reward the same deckbuilding decision. You do not choose between card selection and a clock; the same low-curve artifact shell that lets the search reliably deliver also triggers the growth every turn. That coherence is rarer than it looks in a two-mana creature, where the usual move is to staple an unrelated ability to a small body and hope the modes overlap. Here the modes are the same axis viewed twice: the artifacts you are already casting are both the thing it finds you and the thing it grows on. A white artifact payoff that asks nothing of you beyond building the artifact deck you were building anyway.
