Titania's Song

Antiquities printed this as a green answer to its own artifact-set thesis: a global transformation that turned every Mox, every Sol Ring, every cheap mana rock into a creature with a body proportional to its cost. The card works on two violent axes at once. It functions as removal, because those new creatures are vulnerable to every creature removal spell the green deck was already running, and because stripping abilities shuts off the engines that made the artifacts worth playing in the first place. It also functions as a kill condition, because a battlefield of mana rocks suddenly has a clock attached. The wording matters: the artifacts lose abilities and become creatures with power and toughness equal to mana value, so a zero-cost Mox becomes a 0/0 and dies as a state-based action the moment the enchantment resolves. That single interaction is the card's most brutal line, and it reads as deliberate from a designer who watched the Power Nine warp the format around them. Note the reach: the effect touches every noncreature artifact, so even artifact lands become 0/0s and die, which sharpens the spell into a punish for rocks rather than a clean sweeper. The leaves-the-battlefield clause closes the obvious loophole (bounce the enchantment, keep your artifacts) by holding the transformation through end of turn, the kind of rules-tightening green effects of the era almost never got. A piece of the original anti-artifact toolkit, written with more teeth than the rate suggests.