Runeforge Champion

The Runes were an equipment-adjacent Aura subtheme, most of them content to sit on an artifact as well as a creature, each buffing a single permanent. The trouble with any card-toolbox mechanic is finding the pieces reliably and paying full freight for each one, and this body solves both ends of that problem in a single package. The enters-the-battlefield trigger digs a specific Rune out of either zone; the static cost reduction turns every subsequent Rune into a one-mana investment regardless of what it printed. That reduction is where the archetype changes character. Runes were priced as if you would cast them at face value; drop each to a single generic mana and the deck stops being a slow accretion of Auras and becomes a tempo engine, where a fetched Rune arrives the same turn and the rest of the hand deploys nearly for free. Digging out of the graveyard matters too: a Rune answered by removal or looted away is not gone, so the toolbox keeps its options after the first exchange. The catch is where the two halves diverge. The tutor is a one-and-done that fires the moment the Dwarf enters, so removal in response still hands you the Rune; the discount is the piece that dies with the body, working only while the creature stays on the board. It is a payoff and an enabler stapled together, the kind of build-around that either anchors a deck or sits dead in it, with little in between.