Swallow Whole

White has never had clean, unconditional removal, and this holds the line by charging in a currency white pays comfortably: tempo. The exile is real and permanent, but it only reaches a tapped creature, which is a narrower window than it looks. An attacker that just swung is fair game; so is a creature already committed to a tap ability, or one an opponent tapped for mana. But a blocker held back on defense stays untapped and is therefore out of range entirely. Being a sorcery closes the door further: you cannot answer an attacker mid-combat or point it at a fresh threat on your opponent's turn, so the removal has to be spent proactively on a board that has already committed to being tapped down. The additional cost sharpens the exchange in the same direction. Tapping one of your own creatures means the spell wants a board where a body can spare its combat step, and the +1/+1 counter it leaves behind is a small refund that nudges the card toward aggressive white decks rather than patient ones. That is the tension the design resolves: it hands white a one-mana exile that would be premium in any color, then locks it behind the requirement that the game already be moving your way, with your creatures attacking and your opponent's overextended into taps. Conditional access to effects other colors get outright: the line white has always walked runs straight through here.