All players may cast artifact spells without paying their mana cost.
: Counter target artifact spell unless its controller pays
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When you have no cards in hand, sacrifice Mistress of Innovation. Then if you control a Mountain, destroy all artifacts.
Created for Challenge # 068 as a fix of Mistress of the Machine.
Amongst the problems with the source card were:
Here's my attempted fix. I think 2UUU is still pretty cheap to bypass mana costs on artifacts entirely, but it seems Wizards disagree: Master Transmuter. Of course, it's symmetrical, but it's an easy symmetry to break: my deck has giant artifacts and yours doesn't.
I changed the meaningless second ability into something that you can use to sortof break the symmetry.
The last ability was still too out-of-colour, so I added the rather odd Mountain rider. It's like the colour restriction on Invigorate or Horobi's Whisper. I'm not very keen on that bit; it may be that the card should just drop that effect entirely. But this way keeps one of the more endearing parts of the source card.