Eaten by Spiders

Green's perennial answer to the thing it cannot block. Mono-color color-pie discipline has long denied green clean removal, leaving it to swat fliers with reach creatures and the occasional fight spell, so the effects that do give green outright destruction are gated behind a condition narrow enough to keep them off the ground: a kill that only points at the creatures green struggles to interact with in the first place. The flying clause is the whole tax, and it pays for instant speed and an unusually wide net for a green effect: it destroys outright, no fight, no toughness comparison, no power requirement. The rider that hauls off attached Equipment is the genuinely uncommon part. Most spot removal lets the dead creature's gear fall harmlessly to the battlefield, ready to re-suit the next threat; this one strands that investment in the graveyard alongside its bearer, turning a single answer into a two-for-one against any deck that has loaded a flier with hardware. That makes it less a generic flying-hate card and more a punish-the-overcommit tool: the wider the gap between what the opponent spent and what they get back, the better it reads. The cost is symmetrical to that upside. When the skies are empty it sits dead in hand, which is precisely why green has never been trusted with an effect this clean without the flying restriction stapled to it.