Lens of Clarity

An artifact that exists to dissolve two of the game's hidden-information walls, and almost nothing else. The first clause is a permanent, no-cost version of scry-adjacent peeking: it lets you read the top of your library continuously, which matters less for the knowledge itself than for the cards that interact with what sits there, the fetch-and-reveal effects, the play-from-top engines, the manipulation that wants you to know whether the next draw is worth keeping. The second clause is the stranger one: free, perpetual sight of every face-down creature you don't control, the morphs and manifests and disguised threats that the whole point of those mechanics is to keep secret. That is its true reason for being. Face-down creatures run on a bluff: is it a 2/2 with nothing behind it, or the megamorph that wrecks your attack? This artifact deletes the bluff for one mana and never asks for it again, turning every opponent's hidden creature into an open book while costing them no resource to maintain. The design tension is obvious: an effect this narrow only earns its slot in a world dense with face-down creatures, and outside that world the top-of-library clause is doing all the work alone. It is a hate card built for one specific mechanic's heyday, priced cheaply enough to be worth a slot when that mechanic is everywhere and worth nothing when it isn't.