Ezuri's Predation

Symmetrical-looking sweepers ask you to weigh your own board against theirs; this one refuses to look at your side at all. It counts only what your opponents control, mints a 4/4 Phyrexian Beast for each of those creatures, and then forces every Beast to fight a different one of them. Against a wide swarm of small bodies the Beasts trade up wholesale and leave you holding a board full of survivors. Against a table of fatties the arithmetic sours: fight deals damage in both directions simultaneously, so a Beast hurled at a creature with four or more power dies in the exchange, and it kills only assignments with four or less toughness. Anything with a big enough body on both axes survives the collision and hands you nothing. Mandatory pairing is what you pay for the spectacle. This is not surgical removal that lets you cherry-pick clean targets; it is a brute-force exchange where the matchups are assigned and you hope the trades break your way. At eight mana with three green pips, the card wants a late-arriving green deck that flips a stalled board in a single cast, converting a defensive crouch into a counterattack out of whatever material outlives the swap. And because the Beasts are permanents rather than temporary tokens, the survivors stay yours: what starts as an answer to a hostile board ends as an army you built out of it.