Rakdos Charm
Three answers stapled together, none of them quite efficient on its own, sharing a slot precisely because no single mode justifies the card alone. The modal charm is built around coverage rather than power: graveyard hate that hits the whole yard at instant speed, artifact removal that destroys rather than exiles, and a board-wide reach effect that punishes a wide creature swarm by routing damage back at each controller. That last mode is the one that gives the card its identity, since it scales with the opponent's board and turns a go-wide deck's own commitment into lethal math, while doing the same to your side if you forget to read it. The value of a charm like this lives in flexibility under pressure: you hold two mana and decide, at the moment of need, whether to blank a reanimator engine, answer an equipment or a Signet, or close a game that a token deck thought it was winning. Each line answers a different threat, and the card is only good when at least two of those questions are live. The friction is the modality itself: you choose exactly one, and a hand clogged with situational charms is a hand that drew a lot of half-answers. It rewards a player who knows which question the table is asking, and offers nothing to one who wanted a clean removal spell.

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