Pack's Disdain

Removal whose ceiling is set entirely by your own board, which makes it a tribal payoff wearing a kill spell's clothes. The choose-a-creature-type clause is the trick: you point it at the type you already field, and a deck stacked with Goblins or Elves or Faeries turns a two-mana debuff into a scalable answer that can wipe a midsized blocker at instant speed or finish something already chipped down. The dependency is the whole design. With an empty board it does nothing, but the moment you have committed three or four bodies of the named type, it shrinks an attacker or a clogging blocker without trading away a creature of your own, all at the end of an opponent's turn. The counting is more generous than it first reads: it tallies every permanent you control of the chosen type, not just creatures you have cast, so token swarms and any noncreature permanents carrying that type feed the number too. That gives it a strange best-case at exactly the board state most decks find awkward: a stalled, creature-heavy table, where you have the most permanents and the most pressure to break through. The effect rises as fast as your creature count and collapses the instant the board is bare, leaving it useful only as support rather than as splashable interaction. It is a payoff for going wide on a single type, priced so it earns nothing from a deck that does not.