Fraying Omnipotence

Symmetry that scales: this is a card built to feel fair on paper and lopsided in practice. Every "lose half, discard half, sacrifice half, round up" clause hits both players identically, which is exactly the trap. The price of the symmetry is that you pay it too, so the design only rewards a player who has rigged the board state before casting it. Empty your hand first and the discard costs you nothing while your opponent dumps cards. Establish a wide board of expendable bodies and the sacrifice clause prunes their fatties while you toss tokens. Run a drain-and-recursion shell where life is fuel rather than a clock and the symmetric life loss bends entirely in your favor. The rounding-up is where the attrition sharpens: against an opponent with one card, one creature, and an odd life total, "half rounded up" takes the larger slice every time, so the unprepared side bleeds harder on every axis at once. This belongs to black's long tradition of even-handed punishers (the spirit of Mind Twist run through every resource simultaneously rather than one), where the color tax is that you must build a deck willing to bleed alongside the table. It is not a reset button. It is a tempo lever for the player who has already decided that less of everything, for everyone, leaves them ahead.