Wrath effect: Difference between revisions

From MTG Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 17: Line 17:
*<c>Citywide Bust</c>
*<c>Citywide Bust</c>
*<c>Cleansing Nova</c>
*<c>Cleansing Nova</c>
*<c>Council's Judgment</c>
*<c>Day of Judgment</c>
*<c>Day of Judgment</c>
*<c>Descend Upon the Sinful</c>
*<c>Descend Upon the Sinful</c>
Line 25: Line 26:
*<c>Doomskar</c>
*<c>Doomskar</c>
*<c>Dusk</c>
*<c>Dusk</c>
*<c>Dust</c>
*<c>Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite</c> (creature)
*<c>Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite</c> (creature)
*<c>Elspeth, Sun's Champion</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Elspeth, Sun's Champion</c> (planeswalker)
Line 36: Line 38:
*<c>Fumigate</c>
*<c>Fumigate</c>
*<c>Gideon, Champion of Justice</c> (planeswalker)
*<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>Harsh Mercy</c>
*<c>Holy Light</c>
*<c>Hour of Revelation</c>
*<c>Hour of Revelation</c>
*<c>Hour of Reckoning</c>
*<c>Hour of Reckoning</c>
Line 45: Line 49:
*<c>March of Souls</c>
*<c>March of Souls</c>
*<c>Martial Coup</c>
*<c>Martial Coup</c>
*<c>Martyr's Cry</c>
*<c>Mass Calcify</c>
*<c>Mass Calcify</c>
*<c>Myojin of Cleansing Fire</c> (creature)
*<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>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>Ondu Inversion</c>
*<c>Once More With Feeling</c>
*<c>Out of Time</c>
*<c>Out of Time</c>
*<c>Phyrexian Rebirth</c>
*<c>Phyrexian Rebirth</c>
Line 58: Line 65:
*<c>Ravnica at War</c>
*<c>Ravnica at War</c>
*<c>Retribution of the Meek</c>
*<c>Retribution of the Meek</c>
*<c>Righteous Fury</c>
*<c>Rout</c>
*<c>Rout</c>
*<c>Scourglass</c>
*<c>Scourglass</c>
Line 74: Line 82:
*<c>Valiant Endeavor</c>
*<c>Valiant Endeavor</c>
*<c>Wakening Sun's Avatar</c> (creature)
*<c>Wakening Sun's Avatar</c> (creature)
*<c>Wave of Reckoning</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>
}}
}}
Line 107: Line 117:
{{columns-list|colwidth=25em|
{{columns-list|colwidth=25em|
*<c>Archfiend of Sorrows</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Archfiend of Sorrows</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Ascendant Envicar</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Bane of the Living</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>Bite of the Black Rose</c> (-n/-n variation)
Line 113: Line 124:
*<c>Blood on the Snow</c>
*<c>Blood on the Snow</c>
*<c>Bontu's Last Reckoning</c>
*<c>Bontu's Last Reckoning</c>
*<c>Cower in Fear</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Consume the Meek</c>
*<c>Consume the Meek</c>
*<c>Crippling 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>Cry of the Carnarium</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Curse of Death's Hold</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Damnation</c>
*<c>Damnation</c>
*<c>Damn</c> ([[Overload]]ed)
*<c>Damn</c> ([[Overload]]ed)
Line 124: Line 138:
*<c>Deadly Vanity</c>
*<c>Deadly Vanity</c>
*<c>Death Cloud</c>
*<c>Death Cloud</c>
*<c>Death's-Head Buzzard</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Deathbringer Regent</c> (creature)
*<c>Deathbringer Regent</c> (creature)
*<c>Decree of Pain</c>
*<c>Decree of Pain</c>
*<c>Demon of Dark Schemes</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Doomwake Giant</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Dread Cacodemon</c> (creature)
*<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>Elvish Dreadlord</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Elvish Dreadlord</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Engineered Plague</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Essence Pulse</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Essence Pulse</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Extinction Event</c> ([[odd or even]])
*<c>Extinction Event</c> ([[odd or even]])
Line 134: Line 153:
*<c>Eyeblight Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Eyeblight Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Feast of Succession</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Feast of Succession</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Final Revels</c> (-0/-n variation)
*<c>Festercreep</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Festergloom</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Festering March</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Final Revels</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Forced March</c>
*<c>Forced March</c>
*<c>Foundry Hornet</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Gloomdrifter</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Gloomdrifter</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Golden Demise</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Golden Demise</c> (-n/-n variation)
Line 147: Line 170:
*<c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Inner Demon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Inner Demon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Kaervek, the Spiteful</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Kagemaro, First to Suffer</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Kagemaro, First to Suffer</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Killing Wave</c>
*<c>Killing Wave</c>
Line 153: Line 177:
*<c>Life's Finale</c>
*<c>Life's Finale</c>
*<c>Liliana, Death's Majesty</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Liliana, Death's Majesty</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Loss</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Make Obsolete</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Marsh Casualties</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Marsh Casualties</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Massacre Girl</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Massacre Girl</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Massacre Wurm</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>Necromantic Selection</c>
*<c>Night Incarnate</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Night Incarnate</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Night of Souls' Betrayal</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Noxious Ghoul</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Outbreak</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Overwhelming Forces</c>
*<c>Overwhelming Forces</c>
*<c>Perish</c>
*<c>Perish</c>
*<c>Pestilent Haze</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Pestilent Haze</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Phyrexian Scriptures</c>
*<c>Phyrexian Scriptures</c>
*<c>Plague Dog</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Plague Engineer</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Plague Mare</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Plague Wind</c>
*<c>Plague Wind</c>
*<c>Planar Despair</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Planar Despair</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rags</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rags</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rank and File</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rain of Daggers</c>
*<c>Rain of Daggers</c>
*<c>Reiver Demon</c> (creature)
*<c>Reiver Demon</c> (creature)
Line 172: Line 208:
*<c>Ritual of Soot</c>
*<c>Ritual of Soot</c>
*<c>Shadows' Verdict</c>
*<c>Shadows' Verdict</c>
*<c>Shrivel</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Smog Elemental</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Sphere of Annihilation</c> (artifact)
*<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>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Urborg Shambler</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Witch's Vengeance</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Witch's Vengeance</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Yahenni's Expertise</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Yahenni's Expertise</c> (-n/-n variation)
Line 195: Line 237:
*<c>Chandra, Pyrogenius</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Pyrogenius</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chaos Maw</c> (creature)
*<c>Chaos Maw</c> (creature)
*<c>Chaos Moon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Crush the Weak</c>
*<c>Crush the Weak</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
Line 238: Line 281:
*<c>Pyroclasm</c>
*<c>Pyroclasm</c>
*<c>Reckless Endeavor</c>
*<c>Reckless Endeavor</c>
*<c>Rollick of Abandon</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Slagstorm</c>
*<c>Slagstorm</c>
*<c>Starstorm</c>
*<c>Starstorm</c>
Line 243: Line 287:
*<c>Storm's Wrath</c>
*<c>Storm's Wrath</c>
*<c>Subterranean Tremors</c>
*<c>Subterranean Tremors</c>
*<c>Sulfur Elemental</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Sulfurous Blast</c>
*<c>Sulfurous Blast</c>
*<c>Sweltering Suns</c>
*<c>Sweltering Suns</c>
Line 269: Line 314:
*<c>Needle Storm</c>
*<c>Needle Storm</c>
*<c>Nylea's Intervention</c>
*<c>Nylea's Intervention</c>
*<c>Rolling Spoil</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Saggitar's Volley</c>
*<c>Saggitar's Volley</c>
*<c>Skyreaping</c>
*<c>Skyreaping</c>
Line 288: Line 334:
*<c>Avacyn, the Purifier</c> (creature)
*<c>Avacyn, the Purifier</c> (creature)
*<c>Battle of Frost and Fire</c>
*<c>Battle of Frost and Fire</c>
*<c>Brightflame</c>
*<c>Blot Out the Sky</c>
*<c>Blot Out the Sky</c>
*<c>Culling Sun</c>
*<c>Child of Alara</c> (creature)
*<c>Child of Alara</c> (creature)
*<c>Deafening Clarion</c>
*<c>Deafening Clarion</c>
Line 294: Line 342:
*<c>Duneblast</c>
*<c>Duneblast</c>
*<c>Elimination Ritual</c>
*<c>Elimination Ritual</c>
*<c>Ethereal Absolution</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Finality</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Finality</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Firespout</c>
*<c>Firespout</c>
*<c>Gaze of Granite</c>
*<c>Gaze of Granite</c>
*<c>Golgari Charm</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Hazardous Conditions</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Hazardous Conditions</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Jund Charm</c>
*<c>Jund Charm</c>
Line 306: Line 356:
*<c>Novablast Wurm</c> (creature)
*<c>Novablast Wurm</c> (creature)
*<c>Oros, the Avenger</c> (creature)
*<c>Oros, the Avenger</c> (creature)
*<c>Orzhov Pontiff</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Oversimplify</c>
*<c>Oversimplify</c>
*<c>Pernicious Deed</c>
*<c>Pernicious Deed</c>
*<c>Pick Your Poison</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Piru, the Volatile</c> (creature)
*<c>Piru, the Volatile</c> (creature)
*<c>Plague Boiler</c>
*<c>Plague Boiler</c>
Line 314: Line 366:
*<c>Ruinous Ultimatum</c>
*<c>Ruinous Ultimatum</c>
*<c>Savage Twister</c>
*<c>Savage Twister</c>
*<c>Silumgar, the Drifitng Death</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Soulquake</c>
*<c>Soulquake</c>
*<c>Suicidal Charge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Supreme Verdict</c>
*<c>Supreme Verdict</c>
*<c>Time Wipe</c>
*<c>Time Wipe</c>
*<c>Worldpurge</c>
*<c>Worldpurge</c>
*<c>Zealous Persecution</c> (-n/-n variation)
}}
}}


Line 340: Line 395:
===Lands===
===Lands===
{{columns-list|colwidth=25em|
{{columns-list|colwidth=25em|
*<c>Blast Zone</c>
*<c>Surtland Frostpyre</c>
*<c>Surtland Frostpyre</c>
}}
}}

Revision as of 04:01, 21 July 2021

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 essentially no restrictions as to the means by which Wrath effects remove creatures from play, and Wrath effects have included the destruction of creatures, destruction of creatures without regeneration, removal from the game, and returning to their owners' hands. Strictly speaking, in consideration of 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.