Padeem, Consul of Innovation

A defensive lord whose blanket of protection has a hole cut precisely where it counts. Granting hexproof to every artifact you control turns a board of engines and payoffs into something opponents cannot answer at the targeting layer, and the two abilities point at the same board state: the upkeep clause draws a card whenever you control the artifact with the greatest mana value, which is usually the most expensive threat on the table and the one opponents most want dead, so the payoff the hexproof works hardest to keep alive is the same payoff that keeps the draw engine switched on. The catch is the Vedalken herself. Padeem is a non-artifact creature, so the umbrella never covers her, and the 1/4 body invites the obvious response: point a burn spell or an edict at the enabler and strip the whole board of its protection in one shot. The artifacts keep doing what they were doing, but they do it exposed, targetable again by the removal that was locked out a moment ago. Opponents who read the board correctly do not fight through the hexproof; they answer the source it flows from, and the draw engine goes dark alongside it. That is the real cost of granting so much protection to everything except the granter: a 1/4 wall built to outlast attrition rather than pressure it, and against decks with a clean line to a small non-artifact creature, that line is one removal spell long.