Pinnacle Emissary

The trigger keys off how you sequence artifacts, not off the body, and that reframes what the warp cost is buying. Cast this at full price and it turns into a Drone factory: every artifact spell afterward adds a 1/1 flier, so a shell already stacked with cheap artifacts converts each cast into a token. Warp changes the deployment math without changing the payoff. Pay a single hybrid mana to land it early, run out an artifact or two behind it, then let it slip into exile and recast at full cost on a later turn. The wrinkle is that the recast itself creates nothing; the value lives entirely in the artifact spells you have queued for that second window, so a hollow hand makes the buyback empty. That inverts the usual promise of warp. Normally it smooths a curve, buying a card back once for tempo; here the buyback reopens an engine, but only pays out if you have artifacts left to spend on the redeployment. The Drones are deliberately hemmed in on defense: each is a 1/1 flier that can block only other fliers, so they swing freely but cover almost nothing on the ground. That skew pushes them toward an evasive clock rather than a wall, and the restraint on the body is what stops a three-mana engine from running away. The real decision is timing: fire the warp early for pressure, or hold it until your hand can actually feed a second round of casts.