Overwhelming Splendor
Most curses chip at a life total or nibble at a hand; this one rewrites an opponent's board as a standing rule. By enchanting the player rather than a permanent, it flattens every creature they control to a base 1/1 stripped of abilities, then bolts the door on the recovery plan: no activated abilities except mana and loyalty. The tell is in what it deliberately spares. Loyalty abilities still resolve, so it makes no claim as a planeswalker answer, and mana abilities survive, so the victim can still cast whatever they draw. But because the enchantment governs the player, every creature they play joins the same downgrade the moment it enters, so a board built around evasion, activated removal, or a pump payoff collapses into a row of vanilla 1/1s. It is one of the rare effects that targets a person and then keeps rewriting their permanents indefinitely, the structural inverse of a global anthem: a one-sided, persistent debuff that presses down on an entire side of the table at once. Eight mana is the toll for that scope. Unlike most board control, it never has to keep pace with what the opponent rebuilds; it simply taxes everything they will play until the game ends. White rarely gets to neuter an opponent this comprehensively, and the curse subtype is the flavor packaging for a piece of asymmetric lockdown that reads less like removal and more like a sentence handed down.
