Smash to Smithereens
Most artifact removal asks you to pay for the privilege of clean answers; this one pays you back. The destruction half is the rate you expect from cheap red disenchant effects, but the rider attaches three damage to the artifact's controller, turning a reactive spell into a clock. That reshapes the math for any deck propping itself up on an artifact engine: cracking the keystone also strips a meaningful chunk of life, and against a wounded opponent the destroy clause becomes incidental to the burn. The design lineage is the long line of red artifact hate that wants to do more than break the artifact, the same impulse behind cards that exile or deal damage rather than merely destroy, and this one resolves that impulse with the bluntest possible reward. Target dependency is what stops it short of being a strict upgrade on a plain disenchant: with no artifact to point at, it is a dead card, and unlike a flexible sweeper it cannot redirect to a creature or a problem permanent of another type. Narrowness buys the burn. As an instant it sits open through the opponent's turn, punishing the moment an artifact resolves while leaving the three damage as a relevant threat the whole time it idles in hand against a low life total.
