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*<c>Consuming Tide</c>
*<c>Consuming Tide</c>
*<c>Crush of Tentacles</c>
*<c>Crush of Tentacles</c>
*<c>Curse of the Swine</c>
*<c>Cyclonic Rift</c>
*<c>Cyclonic Rift</c>
*<c>Devastation Tide</c>
*<c>Devastation Tide</c>
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*<c>Fade Away</c>
*<c>Fade Away</c>
*<c>Flood of Tears</c>
*<c>Flood of Tears</c>
*<c>Hour of Need</c>
*<c>Inundate</c>
*<c>Inundate</c>
*<c>Kederekt Leviathan</c> (creature)
*<c>Kederekt Leviathan</c> (creature)
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*<c>Blood Money</c>
*<c>Blood Money</c>
*<c>Blood on the Snow</c>
*<c>Blood on the Snow</c>
*<c>Bloodletter</c>
*<c>Bloodletter</c> (creature)
*<c>Bloodline Culling</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Bloodline Culling</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Bontu's Last Reckoning</c>
*<c>Bontu's Last Reckoning</c>
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*<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>Crypt Rats</c>
*<c>Crypt Rats</c> (creature)
*<c>Curse of Death's Hold</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Curse of Death's Hold</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Damnation</c>
*<c>Damnation</c>
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*<c>Ichor Explosion</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Ichor Explosion</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>In Garruk's Wake</c>
*<c>In Garruk's Wake</c>
*<c>Infected Vermin</c>
*<c>Infected Vermin</c> (creature)
*<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>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>
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*<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>Night of Souls' Betrayal</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Noxious Field</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Noxious Ghoul</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Noxious Ghoul</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Outbreak</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Outbreak</c> (-n/-n variation)
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*<c>Plague Engineer</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Plague Engineer</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Plague Mare</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<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>Planar Despair</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Psychotic Haze</c>
*<c>Rags</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rags</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rank and File</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rank and File</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rain of Daggers</c>
*<c>Rain of Daggers</c>
*<c>Rancid Earth</c>
*<c>Reign of Terror</c>
*<c>Reiver Demon</c> (creature)
*<c>Reiver Demon</c> (creature)
*<c>Rising Miasma</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Rising Miasma</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Ritual of Soot</c>
*<c>Ritual of Soot</c>
*<c>Sanguine Praetor</c> (creature)
*<c>Screams of the Damned</c>
*<c>Shadows' Verdict</c>
*<c>Shadows' Verdict</c>
*<c>Shrivel</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Shrivel</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Sickening Dreamns</c>
*<c>Smog Elemental</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Smog Elemental</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Sphere of Annihilation</c> (artifact)
*<c>Sphere of Annihilation</c> (artifact)
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*<c>Stronghold Taskmaster</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Stronghold Taskmaster</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Suffocating Fumes</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Suffocating Fumes</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Tainted Specter</c> (creature)
*<c>Tetzimoc, Primal Death</c> (creature)
*<c>The Meathook Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>The Meathook Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Thrashing Wumpus</c>
*<c>Thrashing Wumpus</c> (creature)
*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxrill, the Corrosive</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Urborg Justice</c>
*<c>Urborg Shambler</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<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>Witch's Vengeance</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Withering Wisps</c>
*<c>Withering Wisps</c>
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==={{R}} Red===
==={{R}} Red===
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{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
*<c>Aggravate</c>
*<c>Alpha Brawl</c>
*<c>Alpha Brawl</c>
*<c>Anger of the Gods</c>
*<c>Anger of the Gods</c>
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*<c>Arcbond</c>
*<c>Arcbond</c>
*<c>Ashen Firebeast</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>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 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 of Darigaaz</c>
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*<c>Burning of Xinye</c>
*<c>Burning of Xinye</c>
*<c>Caldera Hellion</c> (creature)
*<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, Awakened Inferno</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Bold Pyromancer</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra, Flamecaller</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, Pyrogenius</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Chandra's Flame Wave</c>
*<c>Chandra's Fury</c>
*<c>Chaos Maw</c> (creature)
*<c>Chaos Maw</c> (creature)
*<c>Chaos Moon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Chaos Moon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Crush the Weak</c>
*<c>Cinderclasm</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
*<c>Conductive Current</c>
*<c>Conductive Current</c>
*<c>Cosmotronic Wave</c>
*<c>Crater Hellion</c> (creature)
*<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>Descent of the Dragons</c>
*<c>Desert Sandstorm</c>
*<c>Desolation Giant</c> (creature)
*<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>Devastating Dreams</c>
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*<c>Earth</c>
*<c>Earth</c>
*<c>Earthquake</c>
*<c>Earthquake</c>
*<c>Earthshaker</c>
*<c>Electrickery</c>
*<c>Electrickery</c>
*{{card|End the Festivities||VOW}}
*{{card|End the Festivities||VOW}}
*<c>Falling Star</c>
*<c>Fault Line</c>
*<c>Fault Line</c>
*<c>Fiery Confluence</c>
*<c>Fiery Confluence</c>
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*<c>Fire Tempest</c>
*<c>Fire Tempest</c>
*<c>Flamebreak</c>
*<c>Flamebreak</c>
*<c>Flame Sweep</c>
*<c>Flowstone Slide</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Flowstone Slide</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Forktail Sweep</c>
*<c>Forktail Sweep</c>
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*<c>Reckless Endeavor</c>
*<c>Reckless Endeavor</c>
*<c>Rollick of Abandon</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Rollick of Abandon</c> (+n/-n variation)
*<c>Rolling Earthquake</c>
*<c>Rupture</c>
*<c>Rupture</c>
*<c>Seismic Wave</c>
*<c>Seismic Wave</c>

Revision as of 13:52, 23 May 2022

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.
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