Damning Verdict

Wrath effects have always been blunt instruments: they hit everything, friend and foe alike, and the deckbuilder pays for that symmetry by rebuilding a board from scratch. This one hands the asymmetry back to whoever has done the work. Counters are the exemption clause, and the design leans on how widely they are scattered across the modern rules engine: +1/+1 counters, keyword counters, the incidental markers a board accretes through combat and enters-the-battlefield triggers. A creature that has been touched by even one counter walks through the sweeper untouched while an opponent's clean board dies. That reverses the usual bargain of a five-mana wrath, where the caster is often the one starting over. The tension it navigates is precision versus reach: it is still a one-sided answer at heart, but the seam it cuts along is not color, not converted mana cost, not a chosen keyword, but simply whether a creature bears a counter at all. That makes it a sweeper that rewards a particular flavor of board development rather than punishing all of it equally, and it sits in a lineage of asymmetric wraths that let one side keep a creature or two while the rest of the table clears. The line it draws is unusually easy to be on the right side of, provided you have salted your board with counters before the button gets pushed.