Forced March

The X-scalable wrath is one of black's recurring negotiations with the color pie: it gets mass removal, but it pays for it. Here the price is the triple-black pip plus the X, which means a board sweep that clears two-drops costs five mana and one that clears four-drops costs seven. That curve is the whole design. Where white's Wrath of God arrives at a flat four and erases everything, this asks you to bid against your own board, and rewards a deck built high against a deck built low: pick an X that lands beneath your own threats and clears everything cheaper. The scaling is the mechanism for that asymmetry. Cast it small to snipe a swarm of one-drops while your larger bodies survive, or pay full freight for a true reset. It also reads creatures by mana value rather than by what is on the table, so because it destroys rather than targets, a hexproof body costs you nothing extra to ignore while an indestructible one shrugs it off. The triple-black requirement is the real gate, demanding a committed mono-black or near-mono-black mana base in exchange for flexibility that a fixed-cost sweeper can never offer. It is the sorcery-speed sweeper for the player who would rather tune the size of the explosion than accept a single preset blast radius.