Slate of Ancestry

Wide creature decks have always struggled with the same problem: the more bodies you commit to the board, the more vulnerable you are to running out of gas before the alpha strike connects. This is the artifact that answers that problem on its own terms, converting a stalled-out spent hand into a refill scaled to your width. The discard clause is the price, and it is a steep one: you are trading whatever cards you held for whatever your board produces, so the engine only pays out once you have already committed everything. A token swarm or a go-wide aggro build with five or six creatures down turns the activation into a hand-emptying draw spike that few decks can keep pace with; a control shell trying to abuse it as raw card advantage finds nothing to spend it on. That asymmetry is the design: it rewards the deck that has overextended and punishes the one that hasn't, which is exactly backwards from how most card-draw engines are tuned. The colorless cost matters too, since it slots into tribal aggro decks of any color that want a top-end mana sink without bending their manabase. It has stayed a fixture of creature-flooding strategies precisely because no fairer card draws cards by the handful for an army that was going to swing anyway.