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Depopulate

Sorcery2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

A four-mana Wrath variant that buys its differentiation with a rider tuned for a world where two-color creatures are normal: everyone who controls a multicolored creature draws before the board disappears. The clause reads generously, but the incentive structure is asymmetric in practice. The caster gets to build their board around the trigger, holding the sweeper for a turn when they have a gold creature on the table and their opponent has a mono-colored one, or none at all. That converts a symmetric board wipe into a card-neutral, sometimes card-positive one, which is the entire point of paying for this over a cleaner variant. The tension is that the draw is not yours to gatekeep: cast it into an opponent playing the same two-color material and you have paid to refill both sides, so reading the table matters more than firing it as a panic button. It earns its place in any deck built on gold creatures, where the drawback inverts to upside and the sweep stops costing you tempo and cards in the same breath. Its lineage runs through the long line of white board wipes that try to give the control player something the vanilla version does not offer; here the sweetener is a replacement card, conditioned on a deckbuilding choice you were probably making anyway.

Depopulate (snc)
SNC · #10rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each player who controls a multicolored creature draws a card. Then destroy all creatures.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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