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Sunblast Angel

Creature — Angel4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The board wipe that asks who tapped out. Where most white sweepers (Wrath of God, Day of Judgment, the long line of four-mana "destroy all creatures" effects) treat every creature as equal, this one draws its line at tap status: anything still down from attacking or from spending itself on an activated ability gets swept, while anything that held back stays put. That single condition turns it into an attacker-punisher rather than a true reset, and the asymmetry runs in your favor whenever you keep your own board untapped and let the opponent commit. The body completes the design. Because the Angel enters untapped, it sits outside its own trigger entirely: a 4/5 flier that clears the ground it cares about and then starts pressuring life totals the next turn, so the card is a one-card answer plus a clock rather than the pure tempo-loss a creatureless Wrath represents. The cost of the condition is its predictability: a patient opponent can simply not tap out, holding mana up and attackers home, and the sweep catches nothing. A wrath that rewards baiting and punishes greed but folds against a board with the discipline to wait reads less like a panic button than a trap set by the player already sitting back, then rewarded for the patience with a flier that keeps swinging.

Sunblast Angel (c20)
C20 · #102rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.88
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, destroy all tapped creatures.
Legalities

Format Status

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