Vindicate

Three words on a sorcery, and the breadth is the entire pitch. Most removal in Magic is taxonomic, sorted by what it can answer (creatures, enchantments, artifacts, lands, planeswalkers), and the color pie usually demands you pay a premium or accept a restriction to break those boundaries. This pays the premium up front, in fixed mana, and then refuses to discriminate. The catch white-and-black accepts in exchange is the sorcery speed: there is no holding it up, no two-for-one ambush, no answering something mid-combat. You commit to it on your own turn, which is the cost that keeps an unconditional answer from going over the line. The willingness to let a three-mana spell touch anything is what makes it the template the catch-all removal spell still measures itself against. Later "destroy any nonland permanent" designs are explicitly the dialed-back version: the land clause became the standard governor precisely because this card declined to use one. When a format needs a clean, color-pair-appropriate answer to a problem that does not fit a single category, this is the shape that gets cited.