Slaughter the Strong

Most board wipes measure creatures against a single threshold and destroy everything past it. This one flips the accounting: it asks each player to build a survivor pool whose total power is 4 or less, and sacrifices everything outside it. The consequence is a sweeper that scales inversely with individual size. A five-power creature cannot be kept at all, because it alone busts the budget, so the go-tall threat is precisely what dies. Meanwhile a swarm of one-power bodies can survive in numbers: four of them fit under the cap exactly, and the player triaging correctly keeps the maximum they can afford. That makes it an oddly precise answer to the fatty and a leaky one against the crowd, the reverse of how most symmetrical wraths behave. The "total power" wording is the load-bearing piece. It counts the sum rather than the individuals, so a single four-power creature and two two-power creatures are equivalent choices, and the moment the kept board exceeds four, something has to be surrendered. Because each player chooses their own keepers, the caster does not dictate the carnage; both players optimize their own boards simultaneously, and the spell rewards reading the table over simply paying to reset it. It sits in the lineage of asymmetric sweepers that hand the sacrifice decision to the players, a design that turns a reset button into a triage puzzle.