Price of Freedom

Red has always hated artifacts and always burned through its hand too fast, and this two-mana sorcery welds both jobs together while attaching a cantrip that keeps the exchange card-neutral. The compensation clause is the part worth studying, because it changes shape depending on the target. Point it at a land and the swap is close to even on paper: they lose a source, they may find a basic that enters tapped, and the whole cost of the deal lands on their tempo rather than their card count. Point it at an artifact and that same clause becomes real ramp for the victim, an extra land they did not have before, which is the tax you accept for handing your opponent a fresh mana source in exchange for the artifact. Older land destruction like Stone Rain spent itself on the exchange and stopped there; this one refuses to go down a card, pushing its entire drawback onto the clock (their replacement arrives tapped, your card back arrives immediately). Being a Lesson sharpens the tool further: it can wait in the sideboard and be pulled with a learn effect when the board actually asks for artifact hate or a mana-denial poke, rather than clogging opening hands when neither is relevant.