Bedevil

What you pay the double-black for is coverage. Rakdos removal had long been a study in compromise: burn that scaled poorly against big bodies, edicts the opponent chose the target for, sorcery-speed sweepers that missed the window. Terminate answered creatures at instant speed for the same colors but stopped there, leaving artifacts and planeswalkers to some other card in the deck. This widens the net to all three of the permanent types that actually threaten a fair deck, and does it at instant speed with no life payment, no discard cost, no exile-to-hand or looting rider bolted on to justify the rate. The bill comes due entirely in the mana: is a real commitment that keeps it honest, demanding a base that can produce two black on turn three rather than splashing it off a single source. That intensity is what the design trades for its unconditional reach. It is one of the cleanest expressions of the Rakdos philosophy that a spell should do exactly what you want with no hedging, and it should cost you only in the sense that your manabase has to earn it. Where a color pair once needed two or three different removal spells to cover the same board states, this folds them into a single flexible answer, which is why it belongs to the two-color decks that can support the color intensity and stays out of the ones that cannot.