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Color-hate done with a scalpel instead of a hammer. Answers to a single color were an old tradition (early blocks routinely shipped cheap, color-targeted removal and protection), but most of those were dead the moment a matchup turned the wrong way: hold them against a deck without the named color and you are holding a blank. This card softens that failure mode without pretending to escape it. The destruction is uncompromising for its era: no regeneration, no fight, no conditions on the target's size or toughness, just gone at instant speed, and the spell replaces itself as it does so. That cantrip is the whole reason this rises above a plain white-creature kill spell. When you do find a white creature worth answering, the answer costs you nothing in cards; you trade even and pull ahead by one. The restriction is real and it bites: there must be a legal white creature to target, so against decks playing no white the spell sits inert in your hand, undrawable for value, useless to cast. This is not a flexible removal slot that happens to punish white; it is a narrow hate card whose card-draw lowers the price of being narrow only when the matchup actually shows up. That is the design idea Magic has returned to many times since: when a hate effect lands, the cantrip means it costs you nothing to have prepared, so committing to a known target carries no downside even though the card stays useless against everything else.