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Read it as a draft-day decision and the math gets ugly fast. The level-two trigger is the only reason to commit any pick to this, and that trigger requires opponents to lose artifacts from the battlefield to the graveyard, not just play them. TMT's common removal does not touch artifacts: Stomped by the Foot kills creatures, Grounded for Life kills creatures, Bot Bashing Time burns creatures. Equipment like Bespoke Bō and Novel Nunchaku sit on the battlefield untouched even when the equipped creature dies, because the Equipment itself is not what is dying. The artifact-attrition axis the card needs is barely live in this format, and nothing in an opponent's deck is obligated to feed it.

So the floor is the symmetrical Food, which hands every opponent at the table a body's worth of lifegain or sacrifice fodder in a set where Food already appears at common, plus a level-three pump that costs on top of on top of the entry. Eight mana, sorcery-speed, scaling off a hand size that a BG midrange or green ramp deck has usually emptied by the time it can afford level three.

The home, if there is one, is a BG Food and sacrifice build, and even there it is P1P13 filler. The optimistic podcast read counts on three of five archetypes feeding the draw; the format physics side with the harsher verdict, because opponents decide whether your engine ever turns on, and they will simply hold their Equipment. Maindeck zero everywhere. The level-one rate is a tax dressed up as a floor.

A one-mana green Class for artifact-attrition pods, the kind of commander game where opponents are running Treasure, Clue, and equipment that gets traded off regularly. The level-two draw clause only flows when opponents are losing artifacts from the battlefield, so outside an artifact-heavy table it sits at level one as a symmetrical Food maker and nothing more. The eight mana across the curve to reach the level-three pump rarely gets paid in a green deck with better sinks. Goes in artifact-hate builds with the patience for it; cut from anything faster.

No active Modern home. The pitch is a one-mana Class that asks for eight mana across the curve before it does anything Modern cares about, and the level-two payoff, drawing when opponents' artifacts hit the graveyard, is a sideboard-grade effect keyed to a narrow board state rather than a maindeck plan. Against the artifact decks where that draw clause matters (Hammer Time most obviously), the green decks already running artifact hate prefer cards that disrupt the engine outright rather than reward you for trades you have to set up yourself. The symmetrical Food entry is a multiplayer political lever, not a Modern consideration, and the level-three combat rider scaling off hand size belongs to a go-wide aggro shell that does not want to spend its early turns levelling an enchantment instead of developing a board.

Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play this season. The structural read explains why: every line on this card competes with faster, more committed answers, and the slot it most wants, sideboard artifact attrition in a green deck, is held by cards that hit the artifact rather than wait for it to die.

A green one-drop Class for Standard lists that, in theory, want a slow card-advantage sink against artifact decks, except no such deck is asking for it. Levelling to two costs on top of the entry, and the draw trigger only fires when opponents lose artifacts from the battlefield, a condition the current Standard removal suite and threat base rarely supply. The level-three pump arrives eight mana deep, far too late to matter in a format that resolves games sooner. Legal, but it has yet to register in tracked play, and there is no green deck that needs this slot.

Legal in Pioneer since its March 2026 printing, and so far it has yet to register in tracked tournament play. That absence reads cleanly off the card. Pioneer's green decks are built around one of two plans: Mono-Green Devotion, which converts permanents into mana and dumps Karn, the Great Creator, and the various stompy and aggressive green builds that want bodies on the battlefield, not enchantments that ask for eight mana across three turns before they do anything.

A one-mana Class that gifts every opponent a Food on entry and then demands and to come fully online is not a devotion piece (it adds a single pip and no mana of its own) and not an aggro play (the payoff arrives far too late). The level-two draw clause keys off opponents losing artifacts from the battlefield, which is an attrition axis Pioneer's green decks do not contest; they have no reliable way to make opponents shed artifacts on schedule, so the faucet stays dry. The level-three pump is a combat trick gated behind the full investment, which no proactive green deck wants to pay.

There is no archetype here to slot it into. Pioneer does not run an artifact-attrition green shell, and the cards that would care about the level-two trigger live in other formats. The deck this asks for does not exist on the current map, and nothing about the format is bending toward it this season.

A one-mana enchantment whose actual payoff sits eight mana up a sorcery-speed level track, in a format where Black Lotus makes three mana for free on turn zero and Ancestral Recall draws three for one. The level-two artifact-attrition draw points at the Workshops engine, but reactively, one card at a time, while Shops is busy locking you out under Sphere effects. Nothing here accelerates the turn-zero math or answers the Power Nine. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Noise.

The bar in green's one-drop slot is what the card does on turn one, and a symmetrical Food token that hands the same resource to every opponent is not a turn-one play Legacy wants when Green Sun's Zenith, Dryad Arbor, and the elf mana that powers them define the slot. The payoff lives at levels two and three, and reaching level three costs the entry plus plus across multiple sorcery-speed turns. Eight mana over the curve to bring a hand-size pump online is the opposite of how Legacy spends time, and the level-two draw clause needs opponents to be losing artifacts from the battlefield, which no maindeck plan reliably forces. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Does not clear the bar.