Blitz Leech

The counter-wiping clause is the whole reason this exists as its own card rather than a fatter Disfigure that leaves a body. Flash it in and you get a targeted -2/-2 shrink, standard enough, but "remove all counters from that creature" makes it a precise answer for anything living on a +1/+1 stack: a monstrosity, an adapt, a bolstered attacker whose extra power is all that keeps it above the shrink. Against those, the two effects compound. Adapt a two-power creature up to five, apply the -2/-2, then strip the counters, and there is nothing left. Note the clause cuts both ways: it also removes -1/-1 counters, so pointing this at a persist creature actually undoes the drawback its counter was imposing, and it happily wipes shield counters, stun counters, and the like off whatever you target. The flash is what makes the timing worth it: you hold up the ambush against combat and punish a counter-based creature at the moment its controller commits it, and the 5/2 is a genuine attacker afterward rather than a dead card. The pricing leans on that fragility. Six mana buys a glass cannon that dies to nearly anything, so it reads as a removal spell that happens to leave a body, not a creature that happens to remove. That inversion, the enters trigger carrying the value and the body arriving as an afterthought, is where its identity sits.