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It's a slight pity that this purely flavour-driven design ends up rather similar to Malachite Golem.
Yeah, I mean, 4-and-Tap to draw a card is fine - Jayemdae Tome on a land would be too good. But 4-and-Tap to have a shot at drawing a card if it happens to be an instant? Along with the other restriction you mention, it seems so bad.
But this card may be too far the other way: it's rather easier to stuff a deck with artifacts than with instants/sorceries, and this doesn't have the exile if you miss. (Though if the only nonartifacts in your deck are basic lands, you might rather have the exile-if-you-miss.)
I'm a little concerned about whether this is too good in-set, particularly bearing in mind CH's earlier comments on Rooftop Garden. I'll give it some hefty playtesting and see if it feels too strong.
Probably needs to move to set 2: this set's green creatures are full, and it's already got a rare green policeman. This was inspired by one of the creations of my Random Magic Card Generator, as I try to include at least one card inspired by the Generator's output in each of my sets.
Mm, Nivix is 4-and-Tap to "maybe 'draw a card', but only until your next turn - then you have to get rid of it".
I often wondered if they forgot to add "without paying its mana cost".
Other useful words for alternative naming of this cycle:
Vehement/Voracious/Vigorous/Vivid/Visceral/Vocational/Vile/Vulgar/Vindictive/Vestigial/Vociferous/Venerated
Guide/Gloves/Guild/Gang/Glow/Grave/Grind/Guts/Grip/Guard
Obviously similar to Summoner's Bane. Yet another card that uses the (((THOPTER))) token, but it is just so useful in the set. Pilots love it, Hierarchy loves it, Immovable Gadgeteer loves it, it works pretty well with Collaborate, and so on.
The next set will have an artifact creature token without flying, and no or very few Thopter-makers.
The activation cost is a bit lower than that on Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind. But that was an unutterably awful card.
Not sure which out of this and Insidious Toxifer should get to be the second black mythic, and which should just be rare. They're both somewhere near the border.
Considering switching this to uncommon, moving Direct the Explosion to common, and changing another red common noncreature into a creature. Because this is more normally uncommon and Direct the Explosion feels very like a common.