Crush of Tentacles

A six-mana bounce-everything is a fair spell that nobody wants to cast on its rate: it returns your opponent's board as cleanly as your own, so cast blind it is a wash you paid a premium for. The card is built to punish exactly that impulse. Sequence it as the back half of a turn (having already spent something on the stack earlier) and the discount kicks in, dropping the price a mana and leaving you with an 8/8 Octopus on a board you just wiped clean of anything that could block it. That is the entire wager: a symmetrical reset that only breaks symmetry for the player disciplined enough to earn the token, and only ever when they are the one dictating the turn rather than clawing back into it. The surge clause gates both the discount and the body behind commitment, which means the spell rewards a proactive plan and offers nothing to a scrambling defense. Without the Octopus this is a wrath that hands both players an equal rebuild; with it, the reset resolves in favor of whoever set it up, turning a panic button into a finisher. The design logic is honest about its trade: the bigger payoff costs you the option of casting it as pure removal, because the moment you need it as a reset, you have usually already lost the tempo battle it wants you to win.