Tragic Arrogance

The genius of this board wipe is who holds the scalpel. Symmetrical wraths let the loser pick what survives, or save nothing at all: Wrath of God flattens everyone equally, and Cataclysm hands each player the agency over their own keepers. This flips that. You choose which permanent in each of your opponents' four categories lives, which means you leave them their worst artifact, their smallest creature, their least relevant enchantment, their most stranded planeswalker, and sacrifice everything that was actually winning them the game. Meanwhile you keep the best of your own board across all four slots. The category framing is the elegant restriction: you cannot strip a deck bare, because every opponent who controls a creature keeps a creature, and the same holds for the other three types. A player flooded with one permanent type pays the most, since they sacrifice a deep board down to a single survivor of your choosing; a player with one of each loses nothing. That asymmetry rewards reading the table and turns a five-mana sorcery into a precision instrument rather than a reset button. It punishes the go-wide draw and the overcommitted board specifically, while leaving the lean opponent untouched, which makes the timing decision (whom you most need to set back, and how full their categories are) the entire skill of casting it.