Cut the Tethers

A hoser pointed at exactly one tribe, written into the same ecosystem that was busy producing that tribe's swarms. The structure is the pay-or-bounce template (return the relevant permanents unless their controller pays a tax per body), but the relevant permanents are every Spirit on the battlefield, regardless of who controls them. There is no targeting here at all: the spell sweeps globally, naming no player and no specific creature, so it reads as one-sided only when one side is the only side fielding Spirits. Against a Spirit deck you do not share, four mana forces the opponent to choose between paying per creature or watching their board evaporate back to hand. The moment Spirits sit on your own side of the table, that same clause turns on you: it cannot tell your swarm from theirs, and against a non-Spirit opponent it does nothing but bounce your own creatures. That inversion is what fixes the card's role. It is an answer, not a payoff, a piece of anti-tribe technology that punishes a Spirit-heavy opponent only so long as you are not one yourself. Outside a metagame leaning hard into Spirits it has no permanents to affect at all, a dead draw waiting for a matchup that may never come. The narrowness is the design's defining feature: a counter built to live inside the same set of mechanics as its targets, only ever as good as the prevalence of the thing it punishes.