Razor Golem

When affinity arrived, almost every payoff that mattered keyed off artifacts: Frogmite, Myr Enforcer, the whole mechanic engineered to flood the board with cheap metal. This is the odd duck of the family, the affinity creature that counts a basic land type instead. The math is plain: with enough Plains in play, a 3/4 with vigilance lands for a fraction of its printed six, and in a heavy-white shell it arrives early enough to matter. The trouble is that the two halves rarely live in the same deck. Artifact-affinity wanted Seat of the Synod and the artifact lands, not a stack of Plains; a white weenie build that runs the Plains has little reason to play a colorless six-drop golem that gets cheaper but never cheap enough to outrace its on-color competition. So it sits in the design footnotes rather than the tournament record: a clean idea (affinity does not have to mean artifacts) stranded between two archetypes that each had better things to do with the slot. A 3/4 that attacks and blocks for one or two mana is a fine rate; getting there reliably was always the catch.