Marionette Master
The payoff that turned a board full of disposable artifacts into a clock. The combat-relevant question with this card is never its 1/3 body; it is how much life leaves an opponent every time something dies on your side, and the math scales with both the counters from fabricate and any anthem effect you stack on top. Choosing the three +1/+1 counters at entry makes each subsequent artifact death hit harder, while choosing the Servos hands you three immediate sacrifice fodder to feed back into the trigger: the fabricate decision is the whole strategic axis, a tradeoff between a bigger drain-per-death and more deaths to drain with. That second mode is the one that built decks. Pair it with a free sacrifice outlet and a way to remake artifacts, and the death trigger stops being incidental damage and becomes a loop that ends games without combat. It sits in a lineage of black drain finishers that read your graveyard activity as a life total: where some payoffs count creatures dying and others count specific keywords, this one specifically prices every artifact that hits the bin against an opponent's life, and prices it at whatever power you have managed to assemble. The restriction that keeps it honest is that the drain reads this creature's power and nothing else, so the engine collapses the moment the Master leaves the battlefield, which is exactly why the decks built around it spent so much effort protecting a fragile body.
