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Oversimplify

Sorcery3 generic manaGreen manaBlue mana

Board wipes usually delete; this one converts. Instead of leaving a scorched battlefield, it takes every creature in play, exiles the lot, and hands each player a single Fractal sized to the total power they just lost. The design trick is that it launders a pile of bodies into one, so the sum survives while the count collapses. A player who committed a wide, low-power board walks away with a modest token; a player leaning on a couple of fat threats keeps most of their damage output concentrated on a lone creature. That asymmetry is the whole strategic axis: it rewards total power regardless of body count, and hands the biggest resulting Fractal to whoever was already ahead on raw stats. Exile rather than destruction is doing real work too, dodging death triggers, aristocrat payoffs, and graveyard recursion in one stroke, while the mass wipe on your own board is softened because you get the power back in a body you control. It reads as symmetrical (every player creates a token) but it is anything but, and the player casting it gets to choose the moment their own board state is most favorably converted. A blue-green take on the sweeper that fits the colors' historical discomfort with pure destruction: rather than say no, it reshapes the question into how much power, and to whom.

Oversimplify (c21)
C21 · #399rare
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Rules text

Exile all creatures. Each player creates a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and puts a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total power of creatures they controlled that were exiled this way.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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