Wild Celebrants

Five power for five mana with three toughness is a body built to swing once and trade, and the artifact destruction stapled to its entry is the kind of conditional upside that defined how commons and uncommons handled artifacts in this era: not a dedicated answer you sideboard for, but a maindeck creature that happens to carry one if a target shows up. The "may" is what keeps the trigger from biting its own controller: against an opponent with no artifacts, a mandatory version would either whiff entirely or, worse, force you to blow up one of your own permanents to satisfy the destruction. Making it optional means the card is a clean beater in matchups where nothing needs destroying and an answer-on-a-stick when something does. This is the standard shape Wizards reached for when it wanted hate to be ambient rather than dedicated: bundle the answer into a card you would run anyway, so the destruction is a bonus on a creature instead of a dead draw against the wrong deck. The 5/3 frame is the giveaway that combat, not control, is the point; the toughness is low enough that the body is meant to attack and die, with the artifact kill banked the turn it lands. As removal it is slow and one-shot, gated behind a creature and whatever a five-drop costs you in tempo, but it asks nothing of your deckbuilding and punishes nobody for maindecking it.