Suspend Aggression

The trick to reading this card is that "exile" here is not an answer at all: it is a delay. The temporary-exile school, from Oblivion Ring onward, always risked handing something back on a blink, and most designs fought that by making the return automatic and immediate. This one inverts the model entirely. It exiles the target and grants its owner a window to replay it, meaning they have to pay the mana cost again to bring it back. That reframes the "removal" as a tempo tax: you strip a permanent off the board at the moment it matters, and the cost of getting it back falls on your opponent, not on you. What squares the ledger is the second clause, which is not theft, because no control changes hands. You exile your own top card on the same use-it-or-lose-it schedule, spending a slice of your hidden information for the privilege. Instant speed is what makes the timing lethal: you can strand a blocker during declare-attackers, break up combat math, or clear a lethal-threatening body from the red zone, then leave the owner to decide whether recasting it next turn is worth the mana. Both halves run on the identical "until the end of their next turn" leash, so the spell cares as much about the moment of the exile as about the target. It is less a two-for-one than a temporal displacement, moving a threat and a card of yours out of the present tense and onto a shared clock.