Forsake the Worldly

Narrow answers have always carried a slot tax: a maindeck disenchant rots in hand against the half of the field running no artifacts or enchantments worth exiling. Cycling is the rate adjustment that pays for the specialization. When the opponent gives you nothing to point it at, you pitch it for a card and lose almost nothing; when they slam a problem permanent, you have an answer that exiles rather than destroys, dodging recursion and death triggers alike. That floor is the whole trade. A pure disenchant is cheaper and stronger in a vacuum, but it asks you to gamble a deck slot on the matchup; this asks you to gamble nothing. White has been getting variations on the cycling-disenchant template across many sets, each tuning the cycling cost or the target range to fit its environment. Exiling instead of destroying is the meaningful upgrade in this iteration: it answers permanents that ask to come back, and it leaves nothing behind for a graveyard engine to reclaim. Built so its worst-case outcome is a cantrip rather than a wasted card, it is the sort of maindeckable insurance that earns its place precisely because it can never sit dead.