Vanishing Verse

Two mana that answers almost anything, with one word doing all the balancing: monocolored. Exile is the cleanest form of removal a card can offer, sidestepping regeneration, indestructibility, death triggers, and the graveyard entirely, and here it reaches across permanent types instead of confining itself to creatures. A planeswalker, an enchantment, an artifact, a problem creature: any of them is fair game so long as it carries exactly one color. That single restriction sets the price for the rate. Gold cards slip past it, and so does anything colorless, which means colorless artifacts and lands (basics included, since a Forest has no color at all) sit outside its reach; the answer is a scalpel that assumes the format's threats skew monocolored, which most of them do. The cost is itself a fence: only a deck already in white and black can cast it, and that pairing has long been the home of clean, unconditional removal, so the effect lands exactly where it belongs. The elegance is in how the two clauses pull against each other. Exile wants to answer everything permanently; monocolored hands the opponent an out for free, simply by playing gold cards or colorless threats. The result reads as absurdly efficient until you meet the deck built to dodge it, at which point the same two mana does nothing at all.