Planar Outburst

Every white wrath carries the same dead-card problem: a board sweeper is exactly what you least want to draw once the boards have already traded down. Awaken exists to solve that. The base mode clears the table at sorcery speed like any wrath; paying instead adds three mana to staple a threat to the same effect, so the spell that erases your opponent's board leaves you with a creature of your own. Because the awakened permanent is still a land, it survives the wipe it arrives alongside: the destruction resolves first, then the four +1/+1 counters land on the chosen land to make it a 4/4. It remains a mana source, too, though what it gains is haste rather than vigilance, so each turn you choose between swinging with the body or tapping it for mana, never both at once. The cost structure does the balancing. Eight mana for the full package is a serious commitment, and the awakened land dies to the same removal that answers any creature, so the threat half is no safer than the bodies it just destroyed. What it buys is conversion: a reactive card that turns proactive in the late game without forcing you to carry two different spells. The whole Awaken cycle chases that idea, turning ordinary spells into late-game mana sinks, and a sweeper stapled to a body is where the mechanic does its most obvious work.