The Meathook Massacre

Black had been printing scalable board wipes for years, from Mutilate to Crux of Fate, but they always paid you back in board position and nothing else. The innovation here is folding a drain engine onto the sweeper so the wrath carries a spread with it: the -X/-X clause clears the table, and the two death triggers turn every casualty (yours and theirs) into a life swing that keeps ticking after the smoke settles. That second function is the real departure from a standard reset. Once it resolves, the enchantment persists as a permanent Blood Artist, so a deck already sacrificing or trading creatures now leaks its opponents dry without ever recasting anything. The X in the cost means it never feels dead: point it at a single one-toughness dork early, or scale it to a full sweep late, and the drain triggers reward the body count either way. The legend rule and the enchantment type were the tuning knobs, restricting how many copies stick around and leaving it open to disenchant effects that most wraths dodge entirely. That drain-plus-wipe compression proved potent enough to earn a Standard ban, a rare fate for a removal spell whose situational reach, more than any single overpowered number, made it the answer to every board state at once.