Soul Partition

White's answer to a permanent it cannot cleanly kill has usually been a compromise: bounce it and hand the tempo back, or exile it with a Path-style ramp concession, or lean on a fragile enchantment that dies to the same removal wave. This threads the needle differently. It exiles anything nonland at instant speed, no restriction on type or size, but it does not destroy: the owner can replay the card. Against your own permanents that clause is a feature, a blink to re-fire an arrival trigger or a save from a board wipe. Against an opponent the surcharge does the balancing work, turning a resolved threat back into a topdeck they have to re-pay for. The design trades permanence for flexibility, which is the trade white keeps making with its removal: it answers almost anything for two mana, but only for a turn cycle unless the opponent is short on mana or the game ends first. The exile clause also sidesteps the graveyard entirely, which matters against recursion the way a hard-exile effect does, without the finality of actually taking the card away. It is a tempo tool wearing the costume of removal, sharpest against a single high-impact permanent you need gone right now and expect to close out before the surcharge stops mattering.