Trial of a Time Lord
Most Sagas march their chapters toward an inevitable payoff; this one spends three of them exiling one nontoken creature apiece and then hands the verdict to the table. Oblivion Ring and its many descendants exile with certainty: the answer sticks until you lose the enchantment. Here the exile is provisional. Chapters I, II, and III each strip a different opposing creature away, but chapter IV asks the whole table to decide whether those cards go to the bottom of their libraries or simply return when the Saga sacrifices itself after the fourth counter resolves. That vote is the entire design tension. A council mechanic in a removal shell means the permanence you want is never yours alone to grant: you are asking opponents to convict, and they have every incentive to acquit and reclaim their creatures. It rewards a board state where "guilty" is the popular verdict, which usually means the exiled cards belong to a shared enemy rather than a spread of them. The removal has a decaying clock built in: the chapter I target sits in exile across three turn cycles, chapter II across two, chapter III for a single turn before the vote lands. So the floor is a staggered triple-exile that can buy time on a stalled board; the ceiling, when the votes fall your way, is a genuine three-for-one that answers threats for good. The gap between those outcomes is politics, not mana, which is a rarer axis for white removal than the rate suggests.
