Wrath effect

Wrath effect  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. 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. 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.

White
• Angel of the Dire Hour</c> (creature)

• Akroma's Vengeance</c>

• Austere Command</c>

• Cast Off</c> (adventuring creature)

• Cataclysmic Gearhulk</c> (creature)

• Catastrophe</c>

• Citywide Bust</c>

• Cleansing Nova</c>

• Day of Judgment</c>

• Descend Upon the Sinful</c>

• Devastating Mastery</c>

• Dismantling Wave</c>

• Dimensional Breach</c>

• Divine Reckoning</c>

• Doomskar</c>

• Dusk</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>False Prophet</c> (creature)

• <c>Fated Retribution</c>

• <c>Fell the Mighty</c>

• <c>Final Judgment</c>

• <c>Fortunate Few</c>

• <c>Fumigate</c>

• <c>Gideon, Champion of Justice</c> (planeswalker)

• <c>Hallowed Burial</c>

• <c>Harsh Mercy</c>

• <c>Hour of Revelation</c>

• <c>Hour of Reckoning</c>

• <c>Kirtar's Wrath</c>

• <c>Mageta the Lion</c> (creature)

• <c>Magus of the Disk</c> (creature)

• <c>March of Souls</c>

• <c>Martial Coup</c>

• <c>Mass Calcify</c>

• <c>Myojin of Cleansing Fire</c> (creature)

• <c>Mythos of Snapdax</c>

• <c>Ondu Inversion</c>

• <c>Out of Time</c>

• <c>Phyrexian Rebirth</c>

• <c>Planar Cleansing</c>

• <c>Planar Collapse</c>

• <c>Planar Outburst</c>

• <c>Play of the Game</c>

• <c>Promise of Loyalty</c>

• <c>Ravnica at War</c>

• <c>Retribution of the Meek</c>

• <c>Rout</c>

• <c>Scourglass</c>

• <c>Shatter the Sky</c>

• <c>Slash the Ranks</c>

• <c>Slaughter the Strong</c>

• <c>Solar Tide</c>

• <c>Soulscour</c>

• <c>Sublime Exhalation</c>

• <c>Sudden Disappearance</c>

• <c>Sunblast Angel</c> (creature)

• <c>Sunscour</c>

• <c>Terminus</c>

• <c>Urza's Ruinous Blast</c>

• <c>Wakening Sun's Avatar</c> (creature)

• <c>Winds of Rath</c>

• <c>Wrath of God</c>

Blue
• <c>Aethersquall Ancient</c> (creature)

• <c>Awoken Horror</c> (creature)

• <c>Coastal Breach</c>

• <c>Crush of Tentacles</c>

• <c>Cyclonic Rift</c>

• <c>Devastation Tide</c>

• <c>Displacement Wave</c>

• <c>Engulf the Shore</c>

• <c>Evacuation</c>

• <c>Fade Away</c>

• <c>Flood of Tears</c>

• <c>Inundate</c>

• <c>Kederekt Leviathan</c> (creature)

• <c>Perplexing Test</c>

• <c>River's Rebuke</c>

• <c>Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep</c> (creature)

• <c>Sway of the Stars</c>

• <c>Upheaval</c>

• <c>Wash Out</c>

• <c>Waterspout Elemental</c> (creature)

• <c>Whelming Wave</c>

Black
• <c>Archfiend of Sorrows</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>Black Sun's Zenith</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Blood on the Snow</c>

• <c>Bontu's Last Reckoning</c>

• <c>Consume the Meek</c>

• <c>Crippling Fear</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Crux of Fate</c>

• <c>Cry of the Carnarium</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Damnation</c>

• <c>Damn</c> (Overloaded)

• <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>Deathbringer Regent</c> (creature)

• <c>Decree of Pain</c>

• <c>Dread Cacodemon</c> (creature)

• <c>Drown in Sorrow</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Elvish Dreadlord</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)

• <c>Essence Pulse</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Extinction Event</c> (odd or even)

• <c>Extinguish All Hope</c>

• <c>Eyeblight Massacre</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Feast of Succession</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Final Revels</c> (-0/-n variation)

• <c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Forced March</c>

• <c>Gloomdrifter</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)

• <c>Golden Demise</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Havoc Demon</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)

• <c>Hideous Laughter</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Hellfire</c>

• <c>Hythonia the Cruel</c> (creature)

• <c>Ichor Explosion</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>In Garruk's Wake</c>

• <c>Infest</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Inner Demon</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Kagemaro, First to Suffer</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)

• <c>Killing Wave</c>

• <c>Kindred Dominance</c>

• <c>Languish</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Life's Finale</c>

• <c>Liliana, Death's Majesty</c> (planeswalker)

• <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>Mutilate</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Necromantic Selection</c>

• <c>Night Incarnate</c> (-n/-n variation, creature)

• <c>Overwhelming Forces</c>

• <c>Perish</c>

• <c>Pestilent Haze</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Phyrexian Scriptures</c>

• <c>Plague Wind</c>

• <c>Planar Despair</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Rags</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Rain of Daggers</c>

• <c>Reiver Demon</c> (creature)

• <c>Rising Miasma</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Ritual of Soot</c>

• <c>Shadows' Verdict</c>

• <c>Toxic Deluge</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Witch's Vengeance</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Yahenni's Expertise</c> (-n/-n variation)

Red
• <c>Anger of the Gods</c>

• <c>Apocalypse</c>

• <c>Arcbond</c>

• <c>Bearer of the Heavens</c> (creature)

• <c>Blasphemous Act</c>

• <c>Bloodfire Colossus</c> (creature)

• <c>Breaking Point</c>

• <c>Burning of Xinye</c>

• <c>Caldera Hellion</c> (creature)

• <c>Chain Reaction</c>

• <c>Chandra, Awakened Inferno</c> (planeswalker)

• <c>Chandra, Flamecaller</c> (planeswalker)

• <c>Chandra, Pyrogenius</c> (planeswalker)

• <c>Chaos Maw</c> (creature)

• <c>Crush the Weak</c>

• <c>Comet Storm</c>

• <c>Crater Hellion</c> (creature)

• <c>Decree of Annihilation</c>

• <c>Desolation Giant</c> (creature)

• <c>Destructive Force</c>

• <c>Devastation</c>

• <c>Devastating Dreams</c>

• <c>Disaster Radius</c>

• <c>Draconic Intervention</c>

• <c>Earth</c>

• <c>Earthquake</c>

• <c>Electrickery</c>

• <c>Fault Line</c>

• <c>Firestorm</c>

• <c>Firespout</c>

• <c>Fire Tempest</c>

• <c>Flamebreak</c>

• <c>Flowstone Slide</c> (+n/-n variation)

• <c>Furious</c>

• <c>Gates Ablaze</c>

• <c>Hammerfist Giant</c> (creature)

• <c>Hour of Devastation</c>

• <c>Immolating Gyre</c>

• <c>Incendiary Command</c>

• <c>Incendiary Sabotage</c>

• <c>Inferno</c>

• <c>Jaya Ballard, Task Mage</c> (creature)

• <c>Jiwari, the Earth Aflame</c> (creature)

• <c>Jokulhaups</c>

• <c>Lavaball Trap</c>

• <c>Lavabrink Floodgates</c> (artifact)

• <c>Magmaquake</c>

• <c>Martyr of Ashes</c> (creature)

• <c>Mizzium Mortars</c>

• <c>Mogg Infestation</c>

• <c>Molten Disaster</c>

• <c>Obliterate</c>

• <c>Planequake</c> (test card)

• <c>Puppet's Verdict</c>

• <c>Pyroclasm</c>

• <c>Slagstorm</c>

• <c>Starstorm</c>

• <c>Star of Extinction</c>

• <c>Storm's Wrath</c>

• <c>Subterranean Tremors</c>

• <c>Sulfurous Blast</c>

• <c>Sweltering Suns</c>

• <c>Volcanic Fallout</c>

• <c>Volcanic Torrent</c>

• <c>Volcanic Vision</c>

• <c>Worldfire</c>

Green
• <c>Canopy Surge</c>

• <c>Ezuri's Predation</c>

• <c>Heaven</c>

• <c>Hurricane</c>

• <c>Whiptongue Hydra</c> (creature)

• <c>Whirlwind</c>

• <c>Windstorm</c>

Multicolored
• <c>Avacyn, the Purifier</c> (creature)

• <c>Battle of Frost and Fire</c>

• <c>Blot Out the Sky</c>

• <c>Child of Alara</c> (creature)

• <c>Deafening Clarion</c>

• <c>Death Frenzy</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Duneblast</c>

• <c>Elimination Ritual</c>

• <c>Finality</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Firespout</c>

• <c>Gaze of Granite</c>

• <c>Hazardous Conditions</c> (-n/-n variation)

• <c>Jund Charm</c>

• <c>Kaya's Wrath</c>

• <c>Magister of Worth</c> (creature)

• <c>Merciless Eviction</c>

• <c>Mythos of Snapdax</c>

• <c>Novablast Wurm</c> (creature)

• <c>Oros, the Avenger</c> (creature)

• <c>Oversimplify</c>

• <c>Pernicious Deed</c>

• <c>Piru, the Volatile</c> (creature)

• <c>Plague Boiler</c>

• <c>Punishment</c>

• <c>Razia's Purification</c>

• <c>Ruinous Ultimatum</c>

• <c>Savage Twister</c>

• <c>Soulquake</c>

• <c>Supreme Verdict</c>

• <c>Time Wipe</c>

• <c>Worldpurge</c>

Colorless
• <c>Aligned Hedron Network</c>

• <c>All Is Dust</c>

• <c>Boompile</c>

• <c>Coercive Portal</c>

• <c>Engineered Explosives</c>

• <c>Flaying Tendrils</c> (color identity: black; -n/-n variation)

• <c>Kozilek's Return</c> (color identity: red)

• <c>Nevinyrral's Disk</c>

• <c>Oblivion Stone</c>

• <c>Perilous Vault</c>

• <c>Powder Keg</c>

• <c>Ratchet Bomb</c>

• <c>Ugin, the Spirit Dragon</c> (planeswalker)

• <c>Worldslayer</c>

Lands
• <c>Surtland Frostpyre</c>