This will be the sixth board wipe in 2020 Standard, and it has advantages over the other five. Citywide Bust only hits big creatures and Ritual of Soot only hits small creatures. Kaya's Wrath and Time Wipe are multicolored. Planar Cleansing costs more and kills planeswalkers as well, which is awkward in many control decks. This does have a big downside, if I am understanding adventures correctly, that it is only counted as a sorcery on the stack, and therefore can't be found by Augur of Bolas or Narset. I am not a good control player, so I don't know how to balance these, but it certainly seems like it is in the conversation.
However, it can be found with cards that search/dig for creatures, which there are more of, and can be recurred because it has a creature built into it.
And it can be bounced once in creature form, allowing Teferi, Time Raveler to act as recursion.
If Crux of Fate was standard's premier sweeper during its time in the format, then this will see play if white-based control is any sort of good. I don't get why people equate a card not being strictly better than all of its predecessors with it being simply bad.
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And it can be bounced once in creature form, allowing Teferi, Time Raveler to act as recursion.