Terashi's Grasp

Disenchant has been a fixture of white's color pie since the beginning, and the long history of variants amounts to a designer's debate over how much extra value the effect can carry before it stops being a clean answer. This one pays the player back in life rather than cards: the lifegain scales with the target's mana value, so cracking a busy six-drop artifact nets a meaningful buffer while popping a one-mana enchantment barely registers. That conditional payout is the design honesty here, since the reward tracks how much the player wanted the thing gone. There is a second, quieter lever in the Arcane typing, which threads this into the splice-and-channel ecosystem of its era: it can trigger spellcasting payoffs and be spliced onto, work a plain Disenchant could never do. The price for all that flexibility is sorcery speed, so it cannot answer an opponent's activated combo piece during their own turn. The card therefore reads as a control-leaning take on removal: not the cheapest or the fastest way white deals with artifacts and enchantments, but the one that asks whether the answer can also stabilize a life total on its way out.