Power Conduit

Counter conversion as a verb. Most permanents that traffic in counters either build toward a threshold or bleed toward zero; this is the rare artifact that treats a counter as currency, taking one off any permanent you control and reissuing it somewhere else as either a charge counter on an artifact or a +1/+1 counter on a creature. The implications run in two directions. It lets you bank value off a permanent whose counters were about to become dead weight (a creature about to die in combat, an artifact whose charge counters have outlived their purpose) and redeposit that value where it still matters. It also works as a counter-removal valve in the other direction, because the broad "remove a counter from a permanent you control" clause does not care what kind of counter it pulls, only that you control the thing: a -1/-1 counter dragging a creature toward death, an age counter accelerating a Cumulative Upkeep, a stun counter keeping a permanent from untapping. That removal mode is the quietly sharp one. The cost is the discipline here: each activation taps the Conduit and consumes a counter from your own board, so it cannot manufacture counters from nothing, only relocate them. It is plumbing for a counter-matters engine, an enabler that asks you to already have the pieces it moves between rather than a payoff that wins on its own.