Tribute Mage

The tutor half of a design family that turned artifact combo into a matter of sorting your engine by converted mana cost. Where Trinket Mage fetched the zero- and one-drops (mana rocks, Sol Ring, Skullclamp), this one answers the two-slot: the tier where the payoff artifacts and enabler engines actually cluster. That single number is the whole restriction. Every combo piece worth tutoring gets filtered by whether it costs exactly two, which forces the artifact package to live inside a narrow cost band. The 2/2 body is incidental; nobody runs this to attack. What it sells is consistency: the ability to include a one-of silver bullet and treat it as a virtual copy in every game, plus an elastic search that lets the target shift from opponent to opponent without touching the maindeck. It is a component, not a threat, and it earns its slot by making a fragile plan repeatable. The lineage matters more than the card in isolation. Wizards has spread these cost-gated artifact tutors across the mana curve precisely so combo decks can trade raw power for the reliability of drawing their engine on schedule, and the two-drop tier is where the most dangerous artifacts have always lived. The number on the search is doing all the design work; the Wizard attached to it is just delivery.