Waylaying Pirates

Tempo folded into a body, with a metal tax on the front door. The stun counter is the interesting part: this is not a tap that resets on the next untap step, it is a soft-lock that eats one full untap before the permanent comes back online. Point it at a blocker and you buy an unimpeded attack; point it at a mana rock or a key attacker and you set the opponent back a turn on their own axis. The catch is the artifact gate. Without one in play, the enters-the-battlefield trigger simply fails and you are left with a 3/3 for that does nothing on arrival, so the card only reaches its ceiling where artifacts are already load-bearing. That conditionality is what keeps the effect fair: this is a one-shot on a stick, not a repeatable engine, and the entry fee is a whole board-state prerequisite rather than a one-time payment. Where most blue tempo creatures exploit the enters-the-battlefield window by bouncing or drawing, this one reaches for the counter framework white and blue have been building out, borrowing a stun counter to do work that would otherwise take a dedicated tap-down spell. A fair rate on a fair body, sharpened by a prerequisite that filters it into exactly the decks that can pay it.