Nature's Ruin

A color-hoser sweeper from the era when those were a routine part of the design vocabulary: a one-color answer board, priced to punish whoever leaned hardest into a single hue. The construction is deliberately lopsided. It costs black nothing in collateral (black creatures, artifacts, everything else stays put) while wiping every green creature on both sides of the table regardless of size or protection. The lopsidedness is the entire point: not a balanced sweeper but a tax leveled at one color, built to make mono-green look like a liability against black. Sweepers of this shape (destroy all creatures of a chosen color, cheaply, in your worst enemy's colors) have largely vanished from modern design, where wraths are kept color-neutral and symmetrical to avoid feel-bad targeting. The closest surviving relatives tend to soften the edge with a tradeoff or a hoop to jump through. Here there is none: the cost is low, the effect is total against its target, and the card simply does not care what the green player has invested. It reads as a museum piece of a design philosophy Wizards eventually retired, back when the game still happily printed answers that punished a deckbuilding choice rather than a play.