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Even though he wasnt seen as much throughout the series

First is Priest of Iroas, a terrible rate on an otherwise underwhelming card

Amy Weber has made some amazing art for artifacts like Life Matrix, Urza's Avenger, or Astrolabe that look almost like diagrams, or like an image you could find in a text about that artifact

It was the first major, on-curve creature with a powerful ability to boot (compared to other cards of a similar cost, like Nettletooth Djinn, that had weaknesses instead)

But the game complexity is not only in the card text and rules

Allowing artifacts to fully embrace colored mana cost removed a major divide between this card type and enchantments