Specifically against Affinity, a deck which has recently been seeing more play and has even managed to top 8 the last Modern Challenge, destroying two artifacts very early can prevent them from even playing their Thought Monitor, Thoughtcast, Sojourners Companions and other cards since they will lack the necessary amount of Artifacts to enable Affinity
Love this much on a stick
Target up to 2 of your banished monsters (1 LIGHT and/or 1 DARK)
It describes a technology that uses a write once, read only database system that is bound by cryptographic verification, and bound through a series of blocks (batches of data / datasets) that are subsequently verified into a chain sequence of linked batches over time
There aren't very many cases where I'd want to run this over most other removal, but it's a great way to get problematic copies of Guardian of the Guildpact off the board
Later versions of this card would all come with a drawback youre required to pay before you draw any cards, but Pot of Greed itself is still far too powerful to ever be unbanned