Created for Challenge # 105 as an answer to Artisan's Sorrow, which is apparently the devastating card making Standard a nightmare these days.

Why on earth could Artisan's Sorrow need answering? It's very expensive as Naturalizes go. I guess because Wizards really want people to be able to play enchantment creatures, but the presence of pseudo-card-advantage Naturalize effects makes that too risky. Or maybe we've got an artifact set after Theros and the artifacts are too vulnerable. Okay.

I rather wanted this to give all your artifact creatures modular (or the spelled-out version, "Whenever an artifact creature you control dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to its power on another target artifact creature.") That seemed somewhat crazy though given how much of a powerhouse Arcbound Ravager was in its time. Presumably part of the aim of this challenge is to avoid breaking the tournament environment even worse than it was broken.

I wanted to slightly hose the scry effect of Artisan's Sorrow as well, which is what that weird second effect of this is doing. It also provides the flavour, of an elf who wants to ensure the world stays the same without changing.

Heh, I'd probably have tried to punish "If a player pays more mana for an effect then they really ought to.." :)

Hahaha! Man, even I got to admit this was a good challenge.

I totally buy the "Theros was backed up by an artifact creature set", though with all the good Naturalized in Theros, I assume we must have had a 'Return to Theros', immediately after a 'Mirrodin, Yet Again', with an intervening large set called 'Brothers War Redux: The Timespiral Is Getting Really Specific, Guys'.