Vedalken Infuser

Charge counters were the resource economy of artifact-heavy sets, the slow-drip fuel behind traditions like Power Conduit and Coretapper, and this Wizard plays that economy from a single angle: it drops a charge counter every upkeep with no activation cost and no mana attached. The 1/4 body explains the trade. A defensive butt sits behind the early game without folding to incidental burn, so the counter engine survives long enough to start compounding. What it accelerates is left open, which is both the point and the catch: the ability targets any artifact, so it scales with whatever charge-counter payoff a deck supplies and does nothing without one. Standing alone it is a wall; aimed at a loyalty-style artifact engine or an activated ultimate that wants a critical mass of counters, it shaves a turn or two off the timeline every cycle. The trigger fires only at your upkeep, which constrains it more than the rate suggests: there is no way to dump counters at instant speed in response to a payoff, so it reads as a value piece rather than a combo enabler, the difference between a steady supply line and a burst. It sits among the free-charge-per-turn effects whose ceiling is set entirely by the artifact being fed, which is why it functions as glue: not a payoff itself, but the engine that makes a payoff arrive sooner.