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*<c>Damning Verdict</c>
*<c>Damning Verdict</c>
*<c>Day of Judgment</c>
*<c>Day of Judgment</c>
*<c>Death or Glory</c>
*<c>Depopulate</c>
*<c>Depopulate</c>
*<c>Descend Upon the Sinful</c>
*<c>Descend Upon the Sinful</c>
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*<c>Mageta the Lion</c> (creature)
*<c>Mageta the Lion</c> (creature)
*<c>Magus of the Disk</c> (creature)
*<c>Magus of the Disk</c> (creature)
*<c>Magus of the Tabernacle</c> (creature)
*<c>Major Teroh</c> (creature)
*<c>Major Teroh</c> (creature)
*<c>March of Souls</c>
*<c>March of Souls</c>
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*<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>Planar Outburst</c>
*<c>Play of the Game</c>
*<c>Play of the Game</c>
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*<c>Ravnica at War</c>
*<c>Ravnica at War</c>
*<c>Regna's Sanction</c>
*<c>Regna's Sanction</c>
*<c>Retaliate</c>
*<c>Retribution of the Meek</c>
*<c>Retribution of the Meek</c>
*<c>Righteous Fury</c>
*<c>Righteous Fury</c>
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*<c>Curse of the Swine</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>Displacement Wave</c>
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*<c>Fade Away</c>
*<c>Fade Away</c>
*<c>Flood of Tears</c>
*<c>Flood of Tears</c>
*<c>Free-for-All</c>
*<c>Hour of Need</c>
*<c>Hour of Need</c>
*<c>Inundate</c>
*<c>Inundate</c>
*<c>Kederekt Leviathan</c> (creature)
*<c>Kederekt Leviathan</c> (creature)
*<c>Mass Polymorph</c>
*<c>Part the Veil</c>
*<c>Pendrell Mists</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Perplexing Test</c>
*<c>Perplexing Test</c>
*<c>Profaner of the Dead</c> (creature)
*<c>River's Rebuke</c>
*<c>River's Rebuke</c>
*<c>Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep</c> (creature)
*<c>Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep</c> (creature)
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*<c>Split the Party</c>
*<c>Split the Party</c>
*<c>Sway of the Stars</c>
*<c>Sway of the Stars</c>
*<c>Synthetic Destiny</c>
*<c>Teferi, Timeless Voyager</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Teferi, Timeless Voyager</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Time and Tide</c>
*<c>Upheaval</c>
*<c>Upheaval</c>
*<c>Volcanic Eruption</c>
*<c>Volcanic Eruption</c>
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*<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>
*<c>Call of the Void</c>
*<c>Cower in Fear</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Cower in Fear</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Consume the Meek</c>
*<c>Consume the Meek</c>
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*<c>Deadly Vanity</c>
*<c>Deadly Vanity</c>
*<c>Death Cloud</c>
*<c>Death Cloud</c>
*<c>Death Pit Offering</c> (enchantment)
*<c>Death's-Head Buzzard</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Death's-Head Buzzard</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Deathbringer Regent</c> (creature)
*<c>Deathbringer Regent</c> (creature)
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*<c>Demon of Dark Schemes</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Demon of Dark Schemes</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Doomwake Giant</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Doomwake Giant</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Do or Die</c>
*<c>Dread Cacodemon</c> (creature)
*<c>Dread Cacodemon</c> (creature)
*<c>Dread of Night</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Dread of Night</c> (-n/-n variation)
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*<c>Dry Spell</c>
*<c>Dry Spell</c>
*<c>Elvish Dreadlord</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Elvish Dreadlord</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)
*<c>Endemic Plague</c>
*<c>Engineered Plague</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Engineered Plague</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Essence Pulse</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Essence Pulse</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Evincar's Justice</c>
*<c>Evincar's Justice</c>
*<c>Extinction</c>
*<c>Extinction Event</c> ([[odd or even]])
*<c>Extinction Event</c> ([[odd or even]])
*<c>Extinguish All Hope</c>
*<c>Extinguish All Hope</c>
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*<c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Forced March</c>
*<c>Forced March</c>
*<c>Force of Despair</c>
*<c>Foundry Hornet</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Foundry Hornet</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<c>Gangrenous Zombies</c> (creature)
*<c>Gangrenous Zombies</c> (creature)
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*<c>Hythonia the Cruel</c> (creature)
*<c>Hythonia the Cruel</c> (creature)
*<c>Ichor Explosion</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Ichor Explosion</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>In Garruk's Wake</c>
*<c>Infected Vermin</c> (creature)
*<c>Infected Vermin</c> (creature)
*<c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>In Garruk's Wake</c>
*<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)
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*<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>Liliana of the Veil</c> (planeswalker)
*<c>Living Death</c>
*<c>Living End</c>
*<c>Loss</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Loss</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Make an Example</c>
*<c>Make Obsolete</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Make Obsolete</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Malicious Malfunction</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Malicious Malfunction</c> (-n/-n variation)
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*<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 Dogs</c> (-n/-n variation; creature)
*<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)
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*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxrill, the Corrosive</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Toxrill, the Corrosive</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Tsabo's Decree</c>
*<c>Urborg Justice</c>
*<c>Urborg Justice</c>
*<c>Urborg Shambler</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Urborg Shambler</c> (-n/-n variation)
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*<c>Chaos Moon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Chaos Moon</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<c>Cinderclasm</c>
*<c>Cinderclasm</c>
*<c>Collision of Realms</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
*<c>Comet Storm</c>
*<c>Conductive Current</c>
*<c>Conductive Current</c>
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*<c>Disaster Radius</c>
*<c>Disaster Radius</c>
*<c>Draconic Intervention</c>
*<c>Draconic Intervention</c>
*<c>Dwarven Catapult</c>
*<c>Earth</c>
*<c>Earth</c>
*<c>Earthquake</c>
*<c>Earthquake</c>
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*<c>Heart of Bogardan</c>
*<c>Heart of Bogardan</c>
*<c>Heat Stroke</c>
*<c>Heat Stroke</c>
*<c>Hellion Eruption</c>
*<c>Hour of Devastation</c>
*<c>Hour of Devastation</c>
*<c>Hurly-Burly</c>
*<c>Hurly-Burly</c>
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*<c>Slagstorm</c>
*<c>Slagstorm</c>
*<c>Slice and Dice</c>
*<c>Slice and Dice</c>
*<c>Soulblast</c>
*<c>Star of Extinction</c>
*<c>Star of Extinction</c>
*<c>Starstorm</c>
*<c>Starstorm</c>
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*<c>Volcanic Vision</c>
*<c>Volcanic Vision</c>
*<c>Warmonger</c> (creature)
*<c>Warmonger</c> (creature)
*<c>Whims of the Fates</c>
*<c>Wildfire</c>
*<c>Wildfire</c>
*<c>Wildfire Cerberus</c>
*<c>Wildfire Cerberus</c>
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*<c>Deafening Clarion</c>
*<c>Deafening Clarion</c>
*<c>Death Frenzy</c> (-n/-n variation)
*<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>Ethereal Absolution</c> (-n/-n variation)
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*<c>Tibor and Lumia</c>
*<c>Tibor and Lumia</c>
*<c>Time Wipe</c>
*<c>Time Wipe</c>
*<c>Vile Consumption</c>
*<c>Void</c>
*<c>Void</c>
*<c>Worldpurge</c>
*<c>Worldpurge</c>
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*<c>Blast Zone</c>
*<c>Blast Zone</c>
*<c>Sorrow's Path</c>
*<c>Surtland Frostpyre</c>
*<c>Surtland Frostpyre</c>
*<c>The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale</c>
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Revision as of 16:40, 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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