Ingot Chewer

Red has always had cheap artifact removal, and almost all of it shared the same flaw: a dead card in your hand the moment the opponent has no artifacts to break. The design here folds the answer and a body into the same slot so you never pay for the half you cannot use. Cast for the full five mana, you get a 3/3 that destroys an artifact and stays on the board, useful precisely when there is an artifact worth breaking and you would rather have the creature too. Pay the evoke cost of a single red instead and the body falls away the moment it lands, leaving only the destruction: the same cheap, sorcery-speed Shatter effect the color always offered, now without the regret of drawing it dead. One card, two prices, and the pilot decides each game which half the board demands. The elemental shell is the quiet upgrade over a straight artifact-removal sorcery, since the creature entering and dying is something graveyard and sacrifice engines can read, which a noncreature spell never offered. This is the bargain evoke was built to make legible: not a discount, but a choice between a body you keep and an effect you discard the shell to reach.