Whir of Invention Whir of Invention has a more generic appeal than Reshape or Transmute Artifact, in that it doesnt force you to sacrifice an artifact to use it and has its own built in cost reduction mechanic for tutoring, allowing you to tap artifacts to reduce the cost of X, which in turn lets you pull higher mana value cards from your deck to the battlefield
Aetherdrift Commander (DRC) and Special Guests (SPG) are Commander-, Legacy-, and Vintage-legal sets, and individual cards are also legal where already available in other formats
But of course you don't want to always pay, right
just crying out for abuse
These are similar, mechanically, to cards bearing the Fusion Strike, Rapid Strike and Single Strike types except for Paradox Pokemon, theyre labelled either Ancient or Future
Fast-forward a few years and, by the time the GX era had rolled around, ritual monsters were all but forgotten