Rip Apart

Red kills creatures and planeswalkers with burn; white breaks artifacts and enchantments. Both jobs live squarely in the Boros wheelhouse, which is exactly why folding them onto one two-mana sorcery is smart rather than magical: the problem it solves is not coverage, it is card slots. A deck that wants both answers no longer has to run two different removal spells and risk drawing the wrong one against the wrong threat. Every copy becomes a live draw more often, because the hand that expected to burn a creature can pivot to cracking a lock piece without a dead card sitting idle. The rate on each mode reads as a modest tax for that flexibility: 3 damage that stops short of the fattest threats, and destruction that reaches artifacts and enchantments but not lands or creatures. What you are buying is the option, and the sorcery-speed clause is the cost that keeps the modality honest. You commit to which problem you are solving on your own turn, with no ambush and no holding it up as a bluff. That is the trade at the heart of two-mode removal like the split cards and charms that let a color pair collapse a couple of its existing answers into a single, more consistent draw: it surrenders a point of efficiency in exchange for the guarantee that the card in hand is never the wrong tool.