The Dalek Emperor

Affinity has almost always been a builder's tool: cost reduction as a reward for a board state you have already assembled, from the artifact swarms of Ravager Affinity to the later subtype-gated variants. Here the discount keys off a creature type you have to manufacture yourself, which means this is a payoff you deploy once the swarm is already humming, not the piece that starts it. What makes it a machine rather than a finisher is its combat fork. Every turn, each opponent chooses to strip a creature from their own board or hand you another 3/3 Dalek with menace. Both outcomes tilt the game toward you, and the tokens it mints feed the discount for every subsequent Dalek you cast, so the loop tightens the longer it runs. The static ability closes the circuit by granting your other Daleks haste, so a token minted during your combat phase can swing in that same combat rather than waiting a turn to matter. That placement is the detail doing the most work: an upkeep or enters trigger would resolve in a vacuum, but siting the fork inside combat means every Dalek it creates is already positioned to attack. The 6/6 body is almost incidental once the engine is online; the reason to run this is the compounding choice, not the beater it eventually becomes.