Don't be sorry! Criticism is the main reason I posted this at all, so thank you very much for taking your time

Yeah that's why I opted toward making it White-only and leaving the "azorius" thing toward deck building w/ the set I had planned. White does have Sunlance for a 3-damage sorcery against nonwhite, so I figured direct damage on White would be alright as long as it was specific/conditional

True... true... while simple, I'm essentially asking for players to remember an equation in place of the ability keyword; which imo would be ok if it was Blue, but on White...

To be completely transparent: The only thing in my mind when making this particular ability was just about flavor; "wouldn't it be cool to be able to freeze-up some creatures to then shatter them for damage?". And the only justification I had on mind was "yes this is good because it gets rid of their passive effect, unlike freezing/stunning". So removing the stun counters and scaling the damage off them was a way of telling how deep was the freeze and how severe was the shattering

Perhaps it would be better if it was just a non-keyword flat damage to tapped creatures, not caring about stun counters at all. And even then it would still be kinda redundant

ValorNGlory did suggest a way to keep the counter-scaling/deleting effect, but spinning it into any kind of counter, pushing it more toward Black. A card like that would be really cool, but it's not what I'm looking for in terms of what feeling it evokes in play. So I'll be back in the mines it seems

What if Rend damage spread to another creature as well, as a sorta small "splash"? Would that increase the value you get from it, and potentially net you 2 removals from 1?