Mown, for the same reason as storyteller.

Mown's card is clever.

I'm going to change my vote to Mown and call this round for him.

Please pick a rarity and write a criterion for the next round.

I'd like to improve the flavor in some way, but couldn't come up with anything.

Make a common artifact creature with a backstory. Interpret liberally.
I'm going fluff mode these days, you have been warned.

Ice Golem
Artifact Creature - Golem
Whenever ~ is dealt damage, sacrifice it.
4/4
Long ago, it was a water elemental. When the plane stopped moving, its fluid form was turned to brittle ice.

Solar Golem
artifact Creature-golem (C)
Vigilance
Its creator expected it to be inactive each night. He was wrong.
3/3

I love both of those. This round is already going to suck to vote on.

I always thought artifacts were going to be more of a frostwynde thing, so not too sure on the Solar Golem.
Or was the point that it was built before Starstill?

Edit:
Of course it was built before Starstill.
My point was, was Illpyre also an artifact-leaning area before Starstill?

Reprint Thermal Navigator.

I think from a flavor standpoint, all of the plane's now separate factions used to all mingle together and were strewn about the entire plane evenly. Once Starstill occurred, the factions broke away from each other and moved to their respective sides of the plane. So, lost remnants of Illpyre-centric things (such as enchantment creatures) found in Frostwynd and vice versa make sense, though they should be present in a minimal amount.

Frostcore Sentinel
Artifact Creature - Construct (C)
Defender
Whenever Frostcore Sentinel is dealt damage by a red source, it loses defender until your next end step.
2/3

When the heavens stood still, the people below moved to action. When the conflict subsided, the weapons stood ready.

Antique Guardian
Artifact Creature - Construct
When Antique Guardian dies, put a relic artifact token onto the battlefield.
2/1

Soldered Guardian
Artifact Creature -- Construct (C) [0/3]
Defender
Sacrifice Soldered Guardian: The next artifact spell you cast this turn costs less to cast.
Its joints were melted together by the unfeeling sun of Illpyre, forcing it to stare out at the ruins of the city and corpses of the people it could not save.

next artifact spell you cast [this turn]?

That might possibly be what I meant to say. Maybe.

Effigy, that card could cost and still be perfectly balanced. You made the same mistake with Nuts // Bolts; I don't see why you think a 0/3 with Defender costs . If it were indestructible, sure, but... without that? or even would be fine.

Scavenged Remnant Dragon
Artifact Creature - Dragon
~ gains flying until the end of turn
Born from both characteristics of what remains; that which betrays that there was once life before the lifelessness, and that which betrays that there is life within lifelessness. Its creators are now just a whisper in the wind, scattered across the wastes and ruins that are of its kind - rusted, decrepit, and falling to pieces.
5/5

Inert Sentinel
Artifact Creature
Inert Sentinel gets +3/+0 as long as you control an enchantment.
0/3
The artificers had no difficulty producing working vessels, but a great deal of it trying to animate them. Half a world a way another group was experiencing the exact opposite problem

Like a nuts-and-bolts Ghazbán Ogre, I've got an artifact creature with loyalty issues.

Sunguard Automaton
Artifact Creature - Golem (C)
Whenever an Enchantment enters the battlefield under a player's control, that player gains control of Sunguard Automaton.
WHAT.HAVE.YOU.DONE.FOR.ME.LATELY?
3/3

Let's start the voting!










I vote for Cato.

Ace.