Fyndhorn Pollen

A wall of static erosion that grinds down a column of power rather than a row of toughness: the -1/-0 anthem hits every creature indefinitely, and the activated effect stacks further reductions in a single turn, so the ceiling is a board where one-power attackers stop dealing damage entirely. The escalating tax is the whole balancing act. An age counter lands the very first upkeep, so even early maintenance costs a mana, and the rent climbs by one each turn until paying it becomes ruinous and the enchantment falls off. Cumulative upkeep was the era's chosen lever for powerful continuous effects: let the permanent enter cheaply, then bleed the controller for keeping it, converting every persistent advantage into a question of how many turns you can afford the lease. The -1/-0 axis is deliberately narrow. It punishes wide armies of one-power weenies and barely dents a single large threat, which makes the enchantment a metagame-specific lockpiece rather than a universal sweeper. It captures how designers of that generation tried to build slow, grinding board controllers that financed their own eventual removal, never demanding a kill spell because the upkeep clock would dismantle them on its own.