Casting cheap artifacts will allow you to grow your army quite large
Used with some inkwell-adding Sapphire cards, such as Heart of Te Fiti, this can quickly add up to a lot of lore gained on every turn.
(Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owners control with a -1/-1 counter on it.) Illustrated by Craig J Spearing Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Not Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp
Of course, Id argue there are even two tiers below it if more grading companies are included: E for less popular but still reasonable grading companies, like GRAAD (Italian), Platin (German), CGA/ARK (Australian), EG (Spanish), etc
This card is based on Ancient Copper Dragon , a 6/5 creature that rolls a d20 each time it deals combat damage, and creates a number of treasure tokens equal to whatever you roll