Workshop Assistant

The death trigger is the entire reason to run this: a small body whose job is to die and buy back a different artifact from the graveyard, turning itself into a recursion node in any deck looking to loop cheap artifacts. Read the phrasing carefully. Because it returns "another target artifact card," it can fetch whatever the engine needs (a token-making rock, a sacrifice payload, a cheap finisher), but that word "another" forbids it from rescuing itself, so it can never rebuild itself into a freely repeatable loop unaided. This is the crucial limit: the Assistant is a one-way valve, not a perpetual motion machine. Pair it with a sacrifice outlet and a second cheap artifact and it becomes the connective tissue of an aristocrats-style artifact chain, feeding the graveyard back into your hand, but the second cheap artifact is what keeps arriving to be sacrificed, not the Assistant, which stays dead until some outside effect returns it. The card is a familiar template denominated in colorless terms: the artifact analogue to the body-and-recursion creatures that fair sacrifice decks have always wanted, a Construct doing the death-trigger value work that other graveyard builds get from creatures or lands, just counting artifacts instead. The body is deliberately small so the recursion carries the card; nobody is casting a 1/2 Construct for its stats.