Kin-Tree Severance
Unconditional exile at instant speed is white-black's premium removal category, the kind of effect that used to demand a rigid color commitment and a rate to match. What this design does is loosen the commitment: paying with Abzan pips gets it as cheap as three mana across three colors, while a deck that can only reliably produce two of the three color requirements can still hardcast it by covering the shortfall in generic. It answers almost anything at or above the value floor: a creature, a planeswalker, an artifact, an enchantment, a battle, so long as it registers a mana value of three or greater. That floor is doing the real balancing work. It slides off Llanowar Elves, off a turn-one Ragavan, off the cheap disruptive threats a broad exile spell would otherwise erase for value, and it cannot touch a utility land at all, since lands sit at mana value zero. The result resolves the old Abzan problem of splashing removal that hits everything: rather than demanding perfect fixing, it meets a two-color manabase halfway and charges the difference, trading a fixed color cost for a floating one that scales to whatever your board can actually produce.
