Mandate of Abaddon
Most sweepers set a fixed line: destroy everything, destroy the small ones, destroy above a printed toughness. This one measures against your own board, using a creature you control as the yardstick. Everything with power strictly less than your chosen creature dies, so the reference beater survives while the chaff falls. The catch is that the line cuts both ways: anything smaller than your ruler is gone, including your own weenies, tokens, and mana dorks. That makes it a poor answer to your own go-wide board (target your fatty and your swarm evaporates alongside the opponent's) and a natural fit for a go-tall build, where you own one large threat and little else worth keeping. Point it at a lone bomb and you clear a table of small blockers while keeping your finisher online. The "less than" clause is doing quiet limiting work: an opposing body with power equal to or greater than your reference survives, so the spell whiffs against another big creature and cannot break a stalemate by matching size. The pilot who reads power tallies correctly turns a symmetric wrath into a lopsided one, but the asymmetry is earned through board position, not guaranteed by the card. Cast it into the wrong board and you are the one holding the losing end.
