Deafening Silence

Storm and its cousins die to a symmetrical tax dressed as an enchantment. The construction is the whole trick: one white mana buys a permanent that caps every player at one noncreature spell per turn, and the word "each" is the point. On its face that reads even, but the ceiling only bites players whose plan is spell-density: the combo deck chaining rituals and cantrips, the control deck that wants to fire a removal spell and hold up a counter, the storm engine that needs a fistful of casts in a single turn. A creature deck spending its mana on bodies never brushes against it. That asymmetry-through-symmetry is a design lineage white has worked for years, from Rule of Law forward: rather than answer any single threat, it caps the rate at which a whole engine operates, and it does so from a permanent the opponent has to actually remove rather than a spell they can bait out. The subtle part is that the cap is on casting, not resolving. Once the taxed player casts their one noncreature spell, they are done for the turn whether it resolves or not: if it gets countered, they resolved zero, but they have still spent their allotment and cannot cast another. It occupies a narrow seat: the cheapest white answer to decks that win by casting many things quickly, and dead weight against decks that win by casting a few big things, or none at all.