Viridian Zealot

Naturalize had long been green's clean answer to artifacts and enchantments: two mana, a one-for-one trade, the offending permanent gone. What this Elf does differently is fold that effect into a creature you deploy on turn two and cash in later, on your own clock, when a target actually shows up. The body is mediocre by design; the value is in the option. You play a 2/1 that can trade in combat or chip in early damage, and if your opponent never lands an artifact or enchantment worth answering, you have still spent your two mana on a real attacker rather than a dead removal spell rotting in hand. That tension between a fragile beater and a held-back answer is the whole appeal, and it is why green keeps revisiting the design. Disenchant-on-a-stick lets the removal sit in play as a threat of activation, deterring the opponent from committing the very permanents you want to blow up. Because the sacrifice ability is instant-speed, it dodges the awkwardness of holding a removal card you may never need: you can react to a freshly cast Equipment or an enchantment going off, timing the activation for the moment it bites, and otherwise the creature simply attacks. A modest body that doubles as insurance, and insurance you can swing with when the policy goes unclaimed.