Banishing Stroke

Tucking a permanent under its owner's library is the gentlest hard answer white owns: it leaves no graveyard value, sidesteps death triggers and recursion, and beats indestructibility outright, since the threat is removed rather than destroyed. It reaches artifacts, creatures, and enchantments off a single line, wide enough to cover most of the board while still leaving planeswalkers and lands untouched. The cost for that reach is six mana at instant speed, a price you would never willingly pay for what amounts to a glorified bottom-of-library bounce. Miracle is the entire reason the card exists. Reveal it as the first card you draw in a turn and the same effect resolves for a single white, collapsing a deliberately unpayable sticker price into one of the cheapest unconditional removal spells the color offers. The printed cost is a wall built specifically to be unpayable; the miracle cost is the only door through it, open solely on the draw that turns it up. The instant typing matters precisely because the miracle window opens on the first card drawn in any turn, not just your own. Hit it off an opponent's-turn draw spell, or off your own end-of-turn cantrip while their threat sets up, and you have a one-mana answer firing at the moment it counts. The friction here is never whether you can answer the threat cleanly. It is whether the top of your library cooperates on the turn you need it to.