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I've been throwing this idea around for a while, and I think I've achieved a good balance of making it worthwhile without making it overly powerful.

David's Sling

Type: Artifact • Brigade: None • Ability: None • Class: None • Special Ability: When your warrior class hero starts a battle, you may draw a card or play an enhancement. If an opponent's evil character taunts you, a hero may enter the battle to discard any evil character in play or set-aside. • Identifiers: OT, Depicts a Weapon • Verse: 1 Samuel 17:50

How so?

Doesn't green have an artifact that does this, albeit without bit about taunting?

Yeah, I agree it could be a bit OP but maybe something like "When your lone warrior-class hero begins a battle you may search opponent's deck or discard pile to remove one evil enhancement in that pile from the game. If any EC taunts you may place a hero in battle to set an EC aside for four turns. May be used (four?) times." I figured for four turns they could be set aside because biblically David defeated Goliath but that only stopped the Philistines for awhile because Israel sinned and was defeated by the Philies later.

Step 1: RA/BC Ehud with this active.
Step 2: Play Samson's Sacrifice.
Step 3: Wyn.

If it were restricted to lone, red WC Heroes, I could see it being feasible (since there aren't a ton of nasty things Red can do preblock) but anytime you have the ability to preblock play an enhancement, it needs to have some pretty severe limiting/balancing factors, or it has OP potential.