Localized Destruction

The board wipe that lets you keep exactly the creatures you built to keep. Wrath effects have always been symmetrical on purpose: the tension in a five-mana sweeper is that it takes down your side too, so the deckbuilding puzzle is how to break the symmetry before you ever cast it. This one folds the answer into the spell. You mint a single energy counter and then decide how much to spend, and every creature you control at that exact power survives while the rest of the table burns. The cleverness is the equality clause: it is not "power greater than or equal to," it is power equal to the amount paid, so a pile of matched-power tokens or a go-wide board with a uniform curve rides through untouched while your opponents' scattered stats do not. It rewards a specific kind of board construction, one where your creatures share a number, and it punishes the mismatched. Energy as the meter is the flourish that makes it work: you generate exactly one counter here, so without an outside source of energy you are protecting only your one-power creatures, and the more of the mechanic you can bank, the more of your board you can insulate at a chosen threshold. That coupling of a payment mechanic to indestructibility, then a full wipe underneath, is a genuinely fresh way to solve the oldest problem in white removal.