Regna's Sanction

Most board-affecting sorceries treat the table as one audience: a wrath hits everyone, a group hug rewards everyone. This one hands the caster a switch to flip per player, sorting the table into two piles and applying opposite effects to each. Friends get a permanent army-wide pump; foes are tapped down to a single creature of their own choosing, left with one untapped body while the rest turn sideways. That the foe picks which creature stays up is what tilts the card toward leverage rather than annihilation: nothing dies, no board gets stripped, and because the tap resolves at sorcery speed those creatures untap on their own turn well before their next combat. So the window is deliberately narrow and one-directional: a foe caught in it can barely block until their untap step, which sets up a swing on the turn you cast it while your allies swell. Because nothing is destroyed, the damage is recoverable, and that recoverability is exactly what makes the card a negotiating chip rather than a declaration of war: you can lean on whoever pulled ahead without ending them. The whole design is engineered for multiplayer politics, rewarding some opponents and hobbling others in a single cast. Its counterpart, Virtus's Maneuver, runs the same friend-or-foe template in black, swapping the pump-and-tap package for life gain and life loss. The price is the four-mana sorcery cost: you spend a full turn to redraw the table, so the reshuffle has to outweigh the tempo you pour in.