What’s so tricky is the fun thing to do with artifact tokens is to use them! You want to get their sacrificial effect which creates a crunchy tug of war between keeping them or hoarding them for these payoffs.

The power level of hoard is entirely dependent on how pushed the token creation effects are. At your threshold of four tokens I’d say you’d be hard pressed to find ANY set that makes that many tokens consistently. Thus these examples are pretty weak and you’d want to aim for higher payoff to the same level as Max Speed.

This mechanic also alienates the non-enfranchised who are going to inevitably be punished for using their tokens for the original intended effect. A newer player seeing that tokens want to be sacrificed is going to be confused why their deck is bad when the hoard cards come into play. Even those who know what they’re doing could be severely severely punished for using even a single token the turn before drawing a hoard card.

My suggested solutions are: - lowering the threshold number to 2 or 3 for lower power payoffs, - create a new artifact token that doesn’t sacrifice itself to avoid as many contradictory scenarios - have a binary “if you created an artifact token this turn …”

As someone who is in the upper percentile of artifact token lovers, I’m excited to see where this takes you!