Aether Snap

Counters and tokens are the two pieces of permanent state that ordinary removal leaves untouched, and both get swept off the board in one cast. That is the niche: a reset for the things mana, destruction, and targeted spells cannot reach. A field of saprolings, an army of thopters, a +1/+1-counter beatdown deck, a planeswalker sitting on loyalty, an artifact ticking up charge counters, all of it dissolves at once. The symmetry is total, and that totality is the cost: your own tokens vanish and your own counters disappear alongside the opponent's, so the card wants a caster who has invested in neither. The effect punishes whoever committed to the strategy it targets, which makes it a poor mirror tool: cast it against another token or counter deck and it strips both boards bare, your investment included. This reads as an answer to a specific board state rather than a flexible tool. Note how cleanly it sidesteps indestructibility and protection: nothing is destroyed and nothing is targeted, so a board of indestructible tokens or hexproof creatures riding counters is no safer than anything else. The spell operates on the board's bookkeeping layer, not on the creatures themselves, a quieter and more comprehensive removal than the sorcery type line suggests.