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Generally speaking, "'''Wrath effect'''"<ref>{{DailyRef|mtgcom/daily/tf82|The Death of Wrath|[[The Ferrett]]|April 15, 2008}}</ref> is ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic]]'' slang for the removal of most, if not all, [[creature]]s in play by any [[spell]] or [[ability]], as the effect of an [[instant]] or [[sorcery]] spell, an [[activated ability]], or a [[triggered ability]], or, loosely, any [[card]] that can produce a Wrath effect. The effect is named after the card <c>Wrath of God</c>, the first ''Magic'' card to feature a mass-creature-removal effect. <ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/arcana/1457|Wraths of God|[[Trick Jarrett]]|March 25, 2014}}</ref> The precise board impact of a Wrath-effect<!--Orthographic rules suggest that this is hyphenated as it is an adjective and is composed of two nouns.--> card is dependent on the current game state, specifically the board condition; but, as a general rule, Wrath effects are extremely powerful and a form of [[card advantage]], as such, nearly all of them carry a rarity of [[rare]].
'''Wrath effect'''<ref>{{DailyRef|serious-fun/death-wrath-2008-04-15|The Death of Wrath|The Ferrett|April 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|card-preview/three-small-words-one-great-effect-2020-07-22|Three Small Words, One Great Effect|[[Steve Sunu]]|July 22, 2020}}</ref>  is ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic]]'' slang for the symmetric removal of most, if not all, [[creature]]s in play by any [[spell]] or [[ability]], as the effect of an [[instant]] or [[sorcery]] spell, an [[activated ability]], or a [[triggered ability]], or, loosely, any [[card]] that can produce a Wrath effect. The effect is named after the card <c>Wrath of God</c>, the first ''Magic'' card to feature a mass-creature-removal effect.<ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/wraths-god-2014-03-25|Wraths of God|[[Trick Jarrett]]|March 25, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|level-one/board-sweepers-2015-06-22|Board Sweepers|[[Reid Duke]]|June 22, 2015}}</ref> The precise board impact of a Wrath-effect<!--Orthographic rules suggest that this is hyphenated as it is an adjective and is composed of two nouns.--> card is dependent on the current game state, specifically the board condition; but, as a general rule, Wrath effects are extremely powerful and a form of [[card advantage]], as such, nearly all of them carry a rarity of [[rare]].


==Definition==
==Definition==
As a slang term, no definitive definition of a Wrath effect exists; but, it is commonly understood that cards such as <c>Wildfire</c> and <c>Destructive Force</c> and cards that do damage to all, or a subset of all, creatures such as <c>Earthquake</c>, <c>Hurricane</c>, and <c>Pyroclasm</c>, regardless of the amount of damage dealt, are not Wrath effects per se due to the additional consideration of creatures' toughnesses and [[State-based actions|state-based effects]]; instead, such cards have Wrath-like effects. Other than this, there are essentially no restrictions as to the means by which Wrath effects remove creatures from play, and Wrath effects have included destruction of the creatures, destruction of the creatures without regeneration, removal from the game, and returning to their owners' hands. Strictly speaking, in consideration of the effect of the original <c>Wrath of God</c>, a Wrath effect is any effect that destroys all, or most, creatures, with or without allowing for regeneration.
As a slang term, no definitive definition of a Wrath effect exists; but, it is commonly understood that cards such as <c>Wildfire</c> and <c>Destructive Force</c> and cards that do damage to all, or a subset of all, creatures such as <c>Earthquake</c>, <c>Hurricane</c>, and <c>Pyroclasm</c>, regardless of the amount of damage dealt, are not Wrath effects per se due to the additional consideration of creatures' toughnesses and [[State-based actions|state-based effects]]; instead, such cards have Wrath-like effects. Other than this, there are no restrictions on how Wrath effects remove creatures from play. Wrath effects have included the destruction of creatures without regeneration, removal from the game, and returning creatures and permanents to their owner's hands. Strictly speaking, considering the effect of the original <c>Wrath of God</c>, a Wrath effect is any effect that destroys all, or most, creatures, with or without allowing for regeneration.


Colors such as white and blue have variations upon the Wrath effect. One such is non-destructive removal from play, by exiling or moving creature cards to another zone, such as the hand or the library.<ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/td/191|End of the Line|[[Mike Flores]]|April 19, 2012}}</ref> Black, interestingly and exclusively, has a variation upon the Wrath effect whereby it gives all, or a subset of all, creatures -m/-n (where m and n are constants or variables that are defined by the card). This too takes into consideration creatures' toughness and state-based effects and is thus a Wrath-like effect. An equivalent exclusive to red is dealing damage to each creature, such as <c>Blasphemous Act</c>.
Colors such as white and blue have variations upon the Wrath effect. One such is non-destructive removal from play, by exiling or moving creature cards to another zone, such as the hand or the library.<ref>{{DailyRef|top-decks/end-line-2012-04-19|End of the Line|[[Mike Flores]]|April 19, 2012}}</ref> Black, interestingly and exclusively, has a variation upon the Wrath effect whereby it gives all, or a subset of all, creatures -m/-n (where m and n are constants or variables that are defined by the card). This too takes into consideration creatures' toughness and state-based effects and is thus a Wrath-like effect. An equivalent exclusive to red is dealing damage to each creature, such as <c>Blasphemous Act</c>.


==Wrath and Wrath-like effects==
==Wrath and Wrath-like effects==
===White===
==={{W}} White===
{{Div col|2}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Angel of the Dire Hour</c> (creature)
*<c>Akroma's Vengeance</c>
*<c>Akroma's Vengeance</c>
*{{card|The Argent Etchings||MOM}} (Saga)
*<c>Austere Command</c>
*<c>Austere Command</c>
*<c>The Battle of Bywater</c>
*<c>By Invitation Only</c>
*<c>Cast Off</c> (adventuring creature)
*<c>Cataclysmic Gearhulk</c> (creature)
*<c>Catastrophe</c>
*<c>Catastrophe</c>
*<c>Celestial Judgment</c>
*<c>Citywide Bust</c>
*<c>Cleansing Nova</c>
*<c>Council's Judgment</c>
*<c>Damning Verdict</c>
*<c>Day of Judgment</c>
*<c>Day of Judgment</c>
*<c>Death or Glory</c>
*<c>Depopulate</c>
*<c>Descend Upon the Sinful</c>
*<c>Devastating Mastery</c>
*<c>Disciple of Caelus Nin</c>
*<c>Dismantling Wave</c>
*<c>Dimensional Breach</c>
*<c>Divine Purge</c>
*<c>Divine Reckoning</c>
*<c>Doomskar</c>
*<c>Dusk</c>
*<c>Dust</c>
*<c>Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite</c> (creature)
*<c>Elspeth, Sun's Champion</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Elspeth Tirel</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>End Hostilities</c>
*<c>End Hostilities</c>
*<c>The Eternal Wanderer</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>False Prophet</c> (creature)
*<c>Farewell</c>
*<c>Fated Retribution</c>
*<c>Fated Retribution</c>
*<c>Fell the Mighty</c>
*<c>Final Judgment</c>
*<c>Final Judgment</c>
*<c>Fortunate Few</c>
*<c>Fumigate</c>
*<c>Gideon, Champion of Justice</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Gideon, the Oathsworn</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Hallowed Burial</c>
*<c>Hallowed Burial</c>
*<c>Harsh Mercy</c>
*<c>Herald of Vengeance</c> (creature)
*<c>Holy Light</c>
*<c>Hour of Revelation</c>
*<c>Hour of Reckoning</c>
*<c>Kirtar's Wrath</c>
*<c>Kirtar's Wrath</c>
*<c>Magus of the Disk</c>
*<c>Mageta the Lion</c> (creature)
*<c>Magus of the Disk</c> (creature)
*<c>Magus of the Tabernacle</c> (creature)
*<c>Main Event Horizon</c>
*<c>Major Teroh</c> (creature)
*<c>March of Souls</c>
*<c>Martial Coup</c>
*<c>Martyr's Cry</c>
*<c>Mass Calcify</c>
*<c>Mass Calcify</c>
*<c>Martial Coup</c>
*<c>Myojin of Cleansing Fire</c> (creature)
*<c>Mythos of Snapdax</c><ref>{{DailyRef|card-preview/wrath-judgment-mythos-2020-04-03|Wrath, Judgment, Mythos|[[Adam Styborski]]|April 3, 2020}}</ref>
*<c>Oddly Uneven</c>
*<c>Ondu Inversion</c>
*<c>Once More With Feeling</c>
*<c>Organic Extinction</c>
*<c>Out of Time</c>
*<c>Phyrexian Rebirth</c>
*<c>Phyrexian Rebirth</c>
*<c>Planar Cleansing</c>
*<c>Planar Cleansing</c>
*<c>Planar Collapse</c>
*<c>Planar Collapse</c>
*<c>Planar Guide</c>
*<c>Planar Outburst</c>
*<c>Play of the Game</c>
*<c>Promise of Loyalty</c>
*<c>Ravnica at War</c>
*<c>Regna's Sanction</c>
*<c>Retaliate</c>
*<c>Retribution of the Meek</c>
*<c>Righteous Fury</c>
*<c>Rockcaster Platoon</c>
*<c>Rout</c>
*<c>Rout</c>
*<c>Scourglass</c>
*<c>Scourglass</c>
*<c>Sculpted Sunburst</c>
*<c>Shatter the Sky</c>
*<c>Slash the Ranks</c>
*<c>Slaughter the Strong</c>
*<c>Solar Tide</c>
*<c>Solar Tide</c>
*<c>Soulscour</c>
*<c>Soulscour</c>
*<c>Stick Together</c>
*<c>Sublime Exhalation</c>
*<c>Sudden Disappearance</c>
*<c>Sudden Disappearance</c>
*<c>Sunblast Angel</c> (creature)
*<c>Sunfall</c>
*<c>Sunscour</c>
*<c>Sunscour</c>
*<c>Temporary Lockdown</c>
*<c>Terminus</c>
*<c>Terminus</c>
*<c>Tragic Arrogance</c>
*<c>Urza's Ruinous Blast</c>
*<c>Valiant Endeavor</c>
*<c>Vanquish the Horde</c>
*<c>Wakening Sun's Avatar</c> (creature)
*<c>Wave of Reckoning</c>
*<c>White Sun's Twilight</c>
*<c>Winds of Rath</c>
*<c>Winds of Rath</c>
*<c>Winds of Abandon</c>
*<c>Wrath of God</c>
*<c>Wrath of God</c>
{{Div col end}}
}}


===Blue===
==={{U}} Blue===
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Aethersquall Ancient</c> (creature)
*<c>Awoken Horror</c> (creature)
*<c>Coastal Breach</c>
*<c>Consuming Tide</c>
*<c>Crush of Tentacles</c>
*<c>Curse of the Swine</c>
*<c>Cyclonic Rift</c>
*<c>Cyclonic Rift</c>
*<c>Day of the Dragons</c>
*<c>Devastation Tide</c>
*<c>Devastation Tide</c>
*<c>Displacement Wave</c>
*<c>Engulf the Shore</c>
*<c>Evacuation</c>
*<c>Evacuation</c>
*<c>Kederekt Leviathan</c>
*<c>Fade Away</c>
*<c>Flood of Tears</c>
*<c>Floodgate</c> (creature)
*<c>Free-for-All</c>
*<c>The Great Synthesis</c>
*<c>Hour of Need</c>
*<c>Hurkyl's Final Meditation</c>
*<c>Inundate</c>
*<c>Kederekt Leviathan</c> (creature)
*<c>Mass Polymorph</c>
*<c>Part the Veil</c>
*<c>Pendrell Mists</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Perplexing Test</c>
*<c>Profaner of the Dead</c> (creature)
*<c>Raise the Palisade</c>
*<c>River's Rebuke</c>
*<c>Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep</c> (creature)
*<c>Spectral Deluge</c>
*<c>Split the Party</c>
*<c>Sway of the Stars</c>
*<c>Sway of the Stars</c>
*<c>Upheaval</C>
*<c>Synthetic Destiny</c>
*<c>Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Teferi, Timeless Voyager</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>The Phasing of Zhalfir</c> (saga)
*<c>Time and Tide</c>
*<c>Upheaval</c>
*<c>Volcanic Eruption</c>
*<c>Wash Out</c>
*<c>Waterspout Elemental</c> (creature)
*<c>Whelming Wave</c>
*<c>Whelming Wave</c>
}}


===Black===
==={{B}} Black===
{{Div col|2}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Archfiend of Sorrows</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Arms of Hadar</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Ascendant Evincar</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Bane of the Living</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Bite of the Black Rose</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Biting Rain</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>The Black Breath</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Black Hole</c>
*<c>Black Sun's Zenith</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Black Sun's Zenith</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Blight Grenade</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Blood Money</c>
*<c>Blood on the Snow</c>
*<c>Bloodletter</c> (creature)
*<c>Bloodline Culling</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Bontu's Last Reckoning</c>
*<c>Cacophony Unleashed</c>
*<c>Call to the Void</c>
*<c>Choking Miasma</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Cloudkill</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Conductor of Cacophony</c>
*<c>Consume the Meek</c>
*<c>Consume the Meek</c>
*<c>Cower in Fear</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Crippling Fear</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Crown of Suspicion</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Crux of Fate</c>
*<c>Crux of Fate</c>
*<c>Cry of the Carnarium</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Crypt Rats</c> (creature)
*<c>Curse of Death's Hold</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Damnation</c>
*<c>Damnation</c>
*<c>Damn</c> ([[Overload]]ed)
*<c>Dakmor Plague</c>
*<c>Dead of Winter</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Deadly Tempest</c>
*<c>Deadly Vanity</c>
*<c>Death Cloud</c>
*<c>Death Cloud</c>
*<c>Death Pit Offering</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Death-Rattle Oni</c> (creature)
*<c>Death's-Head Buzzard</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Deathbringer Regent</c> (creature)
*<c>Decree of Pain</c>
*<c>Decree of Pain</c>
*<c>Demonic Stench</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Demon of Dark Schemes</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Doomwake Giant</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Do or Die</c>
*<c>Drag Below</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Dread Cacodemon</c> (creature)
*<c>Dread of Night</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Drown in Sorrow</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Drown in Sorrow</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Dry Spell</c>
*<c>Elvish Dreadlord</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Endemic Plague</c>
*<c>Engineered Plague</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Essence Pulse</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Evincar's Justice</c>
*<c>Extinction</c>
*<c>Extinction Event</c> ([[odd or even]])
*<c>Extinguish All Hope</c>
*<c>Extinguish All Hope</c>
*<c>Eyeblight Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Famine</c>
*<c>Feast of Succession</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Festercreep</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Festergloom</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Festering Evil</c>
*<c>Festering March</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Final Revels</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Forced March</c>
*<c>Force of Despair</c>
*<c>Foundry Hornet</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Gangrenous Zombies</c> (creature)
*<c>Gix's Command</c>
*<c>Glistening Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Gloomdrifter</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Golden Demise</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Gruesome Realization</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Harbinger of Night</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Havoc Demon</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Hellfire</c>
*<c>Hellfire</c>
*<c>Hezrou</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Hideous Laughter</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Hythonia the Cruel</c> (creature)
*<c>Ichor Explosion</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Infected Vermin</c> (creature)
*<c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>In Garruk's Wake</c>
*<c>In Garruk's Wake</c>
*<c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Inner Demon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Invasion of Fiora</c>
*<c>Kaervek, the Spiteful</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Kagemaro, First to Suffer</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Killing Wave</c>
*<c>Kindred Dominance</c>
*<c>Knife and Death</c>
*<c>Languish</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Last Laugh</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Life's Finale</c>
*<c>Life's Finale</c>
*<c>Liliana, Death's Majesty</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Liliana of the Veil</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Living Death</c>
*<c>Living End</c>
*<c>Loss</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Make an Example</c>
*<c>Make Obsolete</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Malicious Malfunction</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Mandate of Abaddon</c>
*<c>Marsh Casualties</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Massacre Girl</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Massacre Wurm</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Mephitic Vapors</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Minister of Pain</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Mutilate</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Mutilate</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Nausea</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Necromantic Selection</c>
*<c>Night Clubber</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Night Incarnate</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Night of Souls' Betrayal</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Noxious Field</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Noxious Ghoul</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Nuclear Fallout</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>One Ring to Rule Them All</c>
*<c>Outbreak</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Overwhelming Forces</c>
*<c>Olivia's Wrath</c>
*<c>Path of Peril</c>
*<c>Penregon Besieged</c> (-n/-n variation, enchantment)
*<c>Perish</c>
*<c>Pestilence</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Pestilence Demon</c> (creature)
*<c>Pestilent Haze</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Phyresis Outbreak</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Phyrexian Scriptures</c>
*<c>Plague Dogs</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Plague Engineer</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Plague Mare</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Plague Spitter</c> (creature)
*<c>Plague Wind</c>
*<c>Plague Wind</c>
*<c>Planar Despair</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Primaris Eliminator</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Psychotic Haze</c>
*<c>Rags</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rank and File</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rain of Daggers</c>
*<c>Rancid Earth</c>
*<c>Reign of Terror</c>
*<c>Reiver Demon</c> (creature)
*<c>Rising Miasma</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Ritual of Soot</c>
*<c>Sanguine Praetor</c> (creature)
*<c>Screams of the Damned</c>
*<c>Shadows' Verdict</c>
*<c>Shrivel</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Sickening Dreams</c>
*<c>Smog Elemental</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Sphere of Annihilation</c> (artifact)
*<c>Stench of Decay</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Stronghold Taskmaster</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Suffocating Fumes</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Tainted Specter</c> (creature)
*<c>Terisiare's Devastation</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Tetzimoc, Primal Death</c> (creature)
*<c>A-The Meathook Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>The Meathook Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Their Name is Death</c>
*<c>Thrashing Wumpus</c> (creature)
*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Perish</c>
*<c>Toxrill, the Corrosive</c> (-n/-n variation)
{{Div col end}}
*<c>Tsabo's Decree</c>
*<c>Urborg Justice</c>
*<c>Urborg Shambler</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Wail of the Nim</c>
*<c>Wave of Terror</c>
*<c>Witch's Vengeance</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Withering Wisps</c>
*<c>Wolf in _____ Clothing</c> (creature, -n/-n variation)
*<c>Yahenni's Expertise</c> (-n/-n variation)
}}


===Red===
==={{R}} Red===
{{Div col|2}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Aggravate</c>
*<c>Alpha Brawl</c>
*<c>Anger of the Gods</c>
*<c>Anger of the Gods</c>
*<c>Apocalypse</c>
*<c>Apocalypse</c>
*<c>Arcbond</c>
*<c>Arcbond</c>
*<c>Bearer of the Heavens</c>
*<c>Ashen Firebeast</c>
*<c>Ashling the Pilgrim</c> (creature)
*<c>Balefire Dragon</c> (creature)
*<c>Barrage of Boulders</c>
*<c>Bearer of the Heavens</c> (creature)
*<c>Blasphemous Act</c>
*<c>Blasphemous Act</c>
*<c>Blazing Volley</c>
*<c>Bloodfire Colossus</c> (creature)
*<c>Bloodfire Dwarf</c> (creature)
*<c>Bloodfire Infusion</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Bloodfire Kavu</c> (creature)
*<c>Boiling Earth</c>
*<c>Bomb Squad</c> (creature)
*<c>Bonfire of the Damned</c>
*<c>Breaking Point</c>
*<c>Breaking Point</c>
*<c>Breath of Darigaaz</c>
*<c>Breath Weapon</c>
*<c>Brotherhood's End</c>
*<c>Burn Down the House</c>
*<c>Burning of Xinye</c>
*<c>Caldera Hellion</c> (creature)
*<c>Cave-In</c>
*<c>Cerebral Eruption</c>
*<c>Chain Reaction</c>
*<c>Chain Reaction</c>
*<c>Chandra, Awakened Inferno</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Bold Pyromancer</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Flamecaller</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Flame's Fury</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra Nalaar</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Pyrogenius</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra's Flame Wave</c>
*<c>Chandra's Fury</c>
*<c>Chaos Balor</c>
*<c>Chaos Maw</c> (creature)
*<c>Chaos Moon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Cinderclasm</c>
*<c>Collision of Realms</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
*<c>Conductive Current</c>
*<c>Cosmotronic Wave</c>
*<c>Crater Hellion</c> (creature)
*<c>Crush the Weak</c>
*<c>Dagger Caster</c>
*<c>Decree of Annihilation</c>
*<c>Decree of Annihilation</c>
*<c>Desolation Giant</c>
*<c>Delayed Blast Fireball</c>
*<c>Descent of the Dragons</c>
*<c>Desert Sandstorm</c>
*<c>Desolation Giant</c> (creature)
*<c>Destructive Force</c>
*<c>Destructive Force</c>
*<c>Devastate</c>
*<c>Devastation</c>
*<c>Devastation</c>
*<c>Devastating Dreams</c>
*<c>Disaster Radius</c>
*<c>Disaster Radius</c>
*<c>Draconic Intervention</c>
*<c>Dwarven Catapult</c>
*<c>Earth</c>
*<c>Earthquake</c>
*<c>Earthshaker</c>
*<c>The Elder Dragon War</c> (Saga)
*<c>Electrickery</c>
*{{card|End the Festivities||VOW}}
*<c>Exocrine</c> (creature)
*<c>Falling Star</c>
*{{card|The Fall of Kroog||BRO}}
*<c>Fault Line</c>
*<c>Fear, Fire, Foes!</c>
*<c>Fiery Confluence</c>
*<c>Firestorm</c>
*<c>Firespout</c>
*<c>Fire Tempest</c>
*<c>The First Eruption</c>
*<c>Flamebreak</c>
*<c>Flame Sweep</c>
*<c>Flame Wave</c>
*<c>Flowstone Slide</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Forktail Sweep</c>
*<c>Forerunner of the Empire</c>
*<c>Furious</c>
*<c>Gates Ablaze</c>
*<c>Goblin Chainwhirler</c>
*<c>Gouged Zealot</c>
*<c>The Great Work</c> (Saga)
*<c>Hammerfist Giant</c> (creature)
*<c>Hazardous Blast</c>
*<c>Heart of Bogardan</c>
*<c>Heat Stroke</c>
*<c>Hellion Eruption</c>
*<c>Hour of Devastation</c>
*<c>Hurly-Burly</c>
*<c>Immolating Gyre</c>
*<c>Incendiary Command</c>
*<c>Incendiary Sabotage</c>
*<c>Incite Rebellion</c>
*<c>Inferno</c>
*<c>Inflame</c>
*<c>Into the Fire</c>
*<c>Invasion of Karsus</c>
*<c>Jaya Ballard, Task Mage</c> (creature)
*<c>Jiwari, the Earth Aflame</c> (creature)
*<c>Jokulhaups</c>
*<c>Jokulhaups</c>
*<c>Kindle the Carnage</c>
*<c>Krark-Clan Shaman</c> (creature)
*<c>Krazy Kow</c> (creature)
*<c>Lavaball Trap</c>
*<c>Lavabrink Floodgates</c> (artifact)
*<c>Let the Galaxy Burn</c>
*<c>Lord of Shatterskull Pass</c>
*<c>Magma Giant</c> (creature)
*<c>Magma Phoenix</c> (creature)
*<c>Magmaquake</c>
*<c>Magmasaur</c> (creature)
*<c>Magma Vein</c>
*<c>Martyr of Ashes</c> (creature)
*<c>Mizzium Mortars</c>
*<c>Mizzium Mortars</c>
*<c>Mogg Infestation</c>
*<c>Molten Disaster</c>
*<c>Nahiri's Sacrifice</c>
*<c>Obliterate</c>
*<c>Obliterate</c>
*<c>Pie-roclasm</c>
*<c>Planequake</c> ([[test card]])
*<c>Puppet's Verdict</c>
*<c>Pyroclasm</c>
*<c>Pyroclasm</c>
*<c>Pyroclast Consul</c> (creature)
*<c>Pyrohemia</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Radiant Flames</c>
*<c>Radiant Lightning</c>
*<c>Rain of Embers</c>
*<c>Reckless Endeavor</c>
*<c>Red Sun's Twilight</c>
*<c>Rollick of Abandon</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Rolling Earthquake</c>
*<c>Rolling Temblor</c>
*<c>Ronin Cliffrider</c> (creature)
*<c>Rough</c>
*<c>Rowan Kenrith</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Rupture</c>
*<c>Ryusei, the Falling Star</c> (creature)
*<c>Sarkhan, Dragonsoul</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Sarkhan's Unsealing</c>
*<c>Savage Alliance</c>
*<c>Scalding Salamander</c> (creature)
*<c>Scourge of Kher Ridges</c>
*<c>Scouring Sands</c>
*<c>Seismic Rupture</c>
*<c>Seismic Shudder</c>
*<c>Seismic Wave</c>
*<c>Shadowstorm</c>
*<c>Shake the Foundations</c>
*<c>Shard Phoenix</c> (creature)
*<c>Shockmaw Dragon</c> (creature)
*<c>Siege Dragon</c> (creature)
*<c>Skirk Fire Marshal</c> (creature)
*<c>Slagstorm</c>
*<c>Slagstorm</c>
*<c>Slice and Dice</c>
*<c>Slight Malfunction</c>
*<c>Soulblast</c>
*<c>Spiteful Banditry</c>
*<c>Star of Extinction</c>
*<c>Starstorm</c>
*<c>Starstorm</c>
*<c>Steam Blast</c>
*<c>Storm's Wrath</c>
*<c>Strategy, Schmategy</c>
*{{card|Structural Assault||SNC}}
*<c>Subterranean Shambler</c> (creature)
*<c>Subterranean Spirit</c> (creature)
*<c>Subterranean Tremors</c>
*<c>Sudden Demise</c>
*<c>Sulfur Elemental</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Sulfurous Blast</c>
*<c>Sweltering Suns</c>
*<c>Swirling Sandstorm</c>
*<c>Temporal Firestorm</c>
*<c>Themberchaud</c> (creature)
*<c>Thunder Dragon</c> (creature)
*<c>Thundermaw Hellkite</c> (creature)
*<c>Thunder of Hooves</c>
*<c>Thunderwave</c>
*<c>Torrent of Lava</c>
*<c>Tremor</c>
*<c>Tumble</c>
*<c>Underworld Fires</c>
*<c>Vampires' Vengeance</c>
*<c>Volcanic Fallout</c>
*<c>Volcanic Fallout</c>
*<c>Volcanic Spray</c>
*<c>Volcanic Torrent</c>
*<c>Volcanic Vision</c>
*<c>Volcanic Vision</c>
*<c>Warmonger</c> (creature)
*<c>Whims of the Fates</c>
*<c>Wildfire</c>
*<c>Wildfire Cerberus</c>
*<c>Winter Sky</c>
*<c>Worldfire</c>
*<c>Worldfire</c>
*<c>Yamabushi's Storm</c>
}}


{{Div col end}}
==={{G}} Green===
 
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
===Green===
*<c>Arashi, the Sky Asunder</c> (creature)
*<c>Barroom Brawl</c>
*<c>Borrowing the East Wind</c>
*<c>Canopy Surge</c>
*<c>Claws of Wirewood</c>
*<c>Cloudthresher</c> (creature)
*<c>Corrosive Gale</c>
*<c>Cyclone</c>
*<c>Downdraft</c>
*<c>Ezuri's Predation</c>
*<c>Fade from History</c>
*<c>Gale Force</c>
*<c>Hail Storm</c>
*<c>Heaven</c>
*<c>Howling Gale</c>
*<c>Hurricane</c>
*<c>Hurricane</c>
*<c>Ifh-Bíff Efreet</c> (creature)
*<c>Needle Storm</c>
*<c>Nylea's Intervention</c>
*<c>Rolling Spoil</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Sagittars' Volley</c>
*<c>Scattershot Archer</c> (creature)
*<c>Silklash Spider</c> (creature)
*<c>Skyreaping</c>
*<c>Spitting Spider</c> (creature)
*<c>Squall</c>
*<c>Squall Line</c>
*<c>Squallmonger</c> (creature)
*<c>Take Down</c>
*<c>Tornado Elemental</c> (creature)
*<c>Tropical Storm</c>
*<c>Whiptongue Hydra</c> (creature)
*<c>Whirlwind</c>
*<c>Whirlwind</c>
*<c>Windstorm</c>
*<c>Windstorm</c>
*<c>Wing Storm</c>
}}


===Multicolor===
==={{M}} Multicolored===
*<c>Child of Alara</c>
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Angrath, Minotaur Pirate</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Aurelia's Fury</c>
*<c>Avacyn, the Purifier</c> (creature)
*<c>Battle of Frost and Fire</c>
*<c>Begin Anew</c>
*<c>Brightflame</c>
*<c>Blot Out the Sky</c>
*<c>Child of Alara</c> (creature)
*<c>Cinderslash Ravager</c> (creature)
*<c>Corpse Explosion</c>
*<c>Culling Ritual</c>
*<c>Culling Sun</c>
*<c>Deafening Clarion</c>
*<c>Death Frenzy</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Dromar, the Banisher</c>
*<c>Duneblast</c>
*<c>Duneblast</c>
*<c>Ethereal Absolution</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Exterminatus</c>
*<c>Finality</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Firespout</c>
*<c>The Flesh is Weak</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Gaze of Granite</c>
*<c>Gaze of Granite</c>
*<c>Golgari Charm</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Gruul Charm</c>
*<c>Harbinger of the Hunt</c>
*<c>Hazardous Conditions</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Hidetsugu Consumes All</c>
*<c>The Horus Heresy</c> (enchantment)
*{{card|Hostile Takeover||SNC}}
*<c>Incandescent Aria</c>
*<c>Iridian Maelstrom</c>
*<c>Jund Charm</c>
*<c>Kaya's Wrath</c>
*<c>Klauth's Will</c>
*<c>Lavalanche</c>
*<c>Legions to Ashes</c>
*<c>Magister of Worth</c> (creature)
*<c>Merciless Eviction</c>
*<c>Merciless Eviction</c>
*<c>Misfortune</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia</c> (creature, -n/-n variation)
*<c>Mythos of Snapdax</c>
*<c>Novablast Wurm</c> (creature)
*<c>Ol' Buzzbark</c> (creature)
*<c>Oros, the Avenger</c> (creature)
*<c>Orzhov Pontiff</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Oversimplify</c>
*<c>Path of Mettle</c>
*<c>Pernicious Deed</c>
*<c>Pernicious Deed</c>
*<c>Punishment (Crime/Punishment)</c>
*<c>Pick Your Poison</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Piru, the Volatile</c> (creature)
*<c>Plague Boiler</c>
*<c>Punishment</c>
*<c>Rakdos, the Showstopper</c>
*<c>Ral, Caller of Storms</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Razia's Purification</c>
*<c>Razia's Purification</c>
*<c>Restore the Peace</c>
*<c>Riveteers Confluence</c>
*<c>Ruinous Ultimatum</c>
*<c>Savage Twister</c>
*<c>Savage Twister</c>
*<c>Silumgar, the Drifting Death</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Simoon</c>
*<c>Sivitri, Dragon Master</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Solar Blaze</c>
*<c>Soulquake</c>
*<c>Space Beleren</c>
*<c>Spontaneous Combustion</c>
*<c>Suicidal Charge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Supreme Verdict</c>
*<c>Supreme Verdict</c>
*<c>Swathcutter Giant</c>
*<c>Tibor and Lumia</c>
*<c>Time Wipe</c>
*<c>Too Greedily, Too Deep</c>
*<c>Vile Consumption</c>
*<c>Void</c>
*<c>Worldpurge</c>
*<c>Worldpurge</c>
*<c>Zealous Persecution</c> (-n/-n variation)
}}


===Colorless===
==={{C}} Colorless===
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Aligned Hedron Network</c>
*<c>All Is Dust</c>
*<c>All Is Dust</c>
*<c>Boompile</c>
*<c>Behold the Power of Destruction</c> ([[Scheme]])
*<c>Calamity of the Titans</c>
*<c>Coercive Portal</c>
*<c>Contagion Engine</c>
*<c>Engineered Explosives</c>
*<c>Engineered Explosives</c>
*<c>False Floor</c>
*<c>The Filigree Sylex</c>
*<c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (color identity: black; -n/-n variation)
*<c>Fraying Line</c>
*<c>Karn's Sylex</c>
*<c>Kozilek's Return</c> (color identity: red)
*<c>Nevinyrral's Disk</c>
*<c>Nevinyrral's Disk</c>
*<c>Noetic Scales</c>
*<c>No One Will Hear Your Cries</c> ([[Scheme]])
*<c>Oblivion Stone</c>
*<c>Oblivion Stone</c>
*<c>Perilous Vault</c>
*<c>Perilous Vault</c>
*<c>Plague Boiler</c>
*<c>Plague Boiler</c>
*<c>Powder Keg</c>
*<c>Ratchet Bomb</c>
*<c>Ratchet Bomb</c>
*<c>Ugin, the Spirit Dragon</c>
*<c>Time Bomb</c>
*<c>Ugin, the Spirit Dragon</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Urza's Sylex</c>
*<c>Volatile Rig</c> (if you lose the flip)
*<c>The Western Cloud</c> ([[Plane]])
*<c>Which of You Burns Brightest?</c> ([[Scheme]])
*<c>Whirling Catapult</c>
*<c>Worldslayer</c>
*<c>Worldslayer</c>
}}
===Lands===
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Blast Zone</c>
*<c>Mount Doom</c>
*<c>Sorrow's Path</c>
*<c>Surtland Frostpyre</c>
*<c>The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale</c>
}}


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 18:25, 20 February 2024

Wrath effect[1][2] is Magic slang for the symmetric removal of most, if not all, creatures in play by any spell or ability, as the effect of an instant or sorcery spell, an activated ability, or a triggered ability, or, loosely, any card that can produce a Wrath effect. The effect is named after the card Wrath of God, the first Magic card to feature a mass-creature-removal effect.[3][4] The precise board impact of a Wrath-effect card is dependent on the current game state, specifically the board condition; but, as a general rule, Wrath effects are extremely powerful and a form of card advantage, as such, nearly all of them carry a rarity of rare.

Definition

As a slang term, no definitive definition of a Wrath effect exists; but, it is commonly understood that cards such as Wildfire and Destructive Force and cards that do damage to all, or a subset of all, creatures such as Earthquake, Hurricane, and Pyroclasm, regardless of the amount of damage dealt, are not Wrath effects per se due to the additional consideration of creatures' toughnesses and state-based effects; instead, such cards have Wrath-like effects. Other than this, there are no restrictions on how Wrath effects remove creatures from play. Wrath effects have included the destruction of creatures without regeneration, removal from the game, and returning creatures and permanents to their owner's hands. Strictly speaking, considering the effect of the original Wrath of God, a Wrath effect is any effect that destroys all, or most, creatures, with or without allowing for regeneration.

Colors such as white and blue have variations upon the Wrath effect. One such is non-destructive removal from play, by exiling or moving creature cards to another zone, such as the hand or the library.[5] Black, interestingly and exclusively, has a variation upon the Wrath effect whereby it gives all, or a subset of all, creatures -m/-n (where m and n are constants or variables that are defined by the card). This too takes into consideration creatures' toughness and state-based effects and is thus a Wrath-like effect. An equivalent exclusive to red is dealing damage to each creature, such as Blasphemous Act.

Wrath and Wrath-like effects

{W} White

{U} Blue

{B} Black

{R} Red

{G} Green

{M} Multicolored

{C} Colorless

Lands

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Ferrett (April 15, 2008). "The Death of Wrath". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  2. ↑ Steve Sunu (July 22, 2020). "Three Small Words, One Great Effect". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  3. ↑ Trick Jarrett (March 25, 2014). "Wraths of God". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. ↑ Reid Duke (June 22, 2015). "Board Sweepers". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  5. ↑ Mike Flores (April 19, 2012). "End of the Line". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  6. ↑ Adam Styborski (April 3, 2020). "Wrath, Judgment, Mythos". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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