Orzhov Charm
The guildmage charm cycle was built on a strict discipline: three effects narrow enough to read as separate cards, crammed into a two-mana modal instant, with no single mode strong enough to be the reason you run it. The Orzhov entry leans hardest into divergence, since its three modes share almost no situation. The destroy mode is the spine, but it is honest removal: it targets, so hexproof stops it, and it destroys, so indestructible shrugs it off. What sets it apart from a clean edict is the toughness-equal life payment, which scales the cost to the threat. The fatter the creature you want gone, the more removing it bleeds you, which keeps a two-mana unconditional kill from being free. The bounce mode looks like a defensive reset, returning your own creature along with any of your own Auras attached to it, but its real value is at instant speed: lifting your creature off a kill spell on the stack or out of a sweeper's path, and rebuying enters-the-battlefield triggers in the process. The reanimation mode is the narrowest, locked to mana value 1 or less, which makes it a recursion line for the smallest bodies (mana dorks, sacrifice fodder, one-drop utility creatures worth a second life). The reward goes to the patient hand, because the correct mode is rarely the one you would have guessed when you drew it; it answers the board that actually develops, which is exactly what a tight modal instant is supposed to do.
