Extinction Event

The wrath that reads your opponent's curve instead of clearing the whole board. Board wipes historically drew a single line (all creatures, or everything above a toughness threshold, or everything sharing a keyword) and asked you to build under it. This one draws the line down the middle of the mana curve and lets you pick which half falls. The odd/even split is a deceptively surgical filter: most decks cluster their threats around a couple of adjacent values, so choosing correctly can strand an opponent's key drops while your own board survives untouched. It rewards knowing the room before you cast rather than sequencing after. At four mana it costs no more than the traditional destroy-all-creatures spells (Damnation and Day of Judgment sit at the same rate), yet exile does the extra work: it answers recursion, indestructibility, and death triggers that a plain kill-everything spell leaves live. What keeps it honest is that the parity choice is a genuine cost, not a free upgrade. Committing to one quality means every creature of the other survives, including whatever an opponent held back to bait the wrong call, so a full sweep of both halves is never on the table. Zero counting as even is the quiet clause that matters most: tokens default to mana value zero and fall under the even call, which frequently makes "even" the reflexive pick against a go-wide board and "odd" the read against a deck built to dodge it.