Plated Onslaught

The team-pump instant is white's oldest closer, a lineage that runs through Overrun in green, the endless variations on Trumpet Blast in red, and the anthem-in-a-can effects meant to turn a wide board into lethal in a single attack step. What sets this one apart is where the discount lives: affinity for artifacts trims only the generic portion of the cost, so the never moves, but the melts away one artifact at a time. In a deck flooding the table with tokens, equipment, and mana rocks, the same +2/+1 to every creature can arrive for as little as its two white pips, often at the exact moment the opponent has counted your attack as survivable. That is the tension affinity resolves here: an alpha-strike pump spell is a dead card when you have nothing to pump, so tying the discount to the artifacts you already control means the board state that makes the effect lethal is the same board state that makes it cheap. Casting it at instant speed sharpens the trick further, converting a telegraphed sorcery-speed swing into a combat blowout sprung after blockers commit. The catch is that it demands its own deck: without a saturated artifact board, the stays on the bill and the card reads as overpriced filler.