Fade from History
Green has always paid for its sweepers with a wrinkle: it does not get to wipe artifacts and enchantments cleanly the way white does, so when it reaches for that effect it hands something back across the table. Here the compensation is a Bear apiece, given to every player who controls the kind of permanent about to die. That single clause reshapes the math. Against a board of go-wide artifacts, the destruction hits everyone and everyone rebuilds with a body, which turns a one-sided answer into a symmetric reset dressed up as a stalemate-breaker. The self-selecting condition is the interesting part: because the spell checks who controls an artifact or enchantment as it resolves, a player sitting on nothing but creatures watches the wipe fire and gains nothing, while the player holding Treasures, Signets, and enchantment engines gets a 2/2 as a parting gift before losing all of it. It is Naturalize's job scaled to the whole board, but priced against the reality that green rarely wants to spend four mana to hand opponents fresh bodies. The design leans into that tension rather than hiding it: the token is not upside, it is the cost of admission that keeps a mono-green artifact answer from being strictly better than everyone else's. The result is a sweeper that only feels clean when your own side is light on the very permanents it destroys, which is exactly the constraint that lets a green board wipe of this shape sit honestly in the color pie.




