Gloom

Three mana, every time, on every white spell and every white enchantment activation: in 1993, when a Serra Angel cost five and a Disenchant cost two, that tax was not a tax but a lock. This is asymmetric color hate at its most uncompromising, a relic of Alpha's color-pie philosophy where black did not merely fight white but priced it out of the game entirely. The tax stacks with itself across multiples, and at the rates of the era it turned an opposing white deck into a player drawing lands and praying. It runs alongside the other Alpha sideboard enchantments that taxed or punished a single color (Karma, Lifeforce, Flashfires, Tsunami), the cards that defined what early sideboarding meant: not adjusting a gameplan but turning a matchup off. Modern design has retreated almost entirely from this space, because asymmetric color hate at these rates produces non-games rather than interesting ones, and because the color pie has loosened to the point where "all white spells" is no longer a coherent target the way it was when decks were mono-colored by default. The lasting value here is instructive rather than competitive: this is the high-water mark of what a three-mana enchantment was once allowed to do to an opponent, and nearly every piece of color hate to follow has had to justify how far short of this it deliberately falls.