Villainous Wrath

A wrath that punishes going wide before it clears the board. The standard board sweeper asks nothing of the opponent's development; here the number of creatures they've committed becomes the size of the life loss, and only then does the sweep resolve. That ordering is the whole design. Against a flooded board, the life loss can be lethal on its own, so the destruction that follows is often academic; against a lean deck holding back its threats, it collapses into an ordinary five-mana clear with a token of extra damage. Black's history of board sweepers has mostly split into two lineages: symmetrical destruction (the Damnation school) and edict-style attrition that makes the opponent choose what to lose. This sits in a third space, where the punishment scales precisely with how aggressively the opponent has built out, turning a defensive tool into something that closes games against the exact decks a sweeper is supposed to stabilize against. The sorcery timing keeps it honest, denying the blowout of holding it up as a combat-step surprise, and the double-black cost anchors it to decks already committed to the color. What it rewards is patience against aggression: let the opponent overextend, then convert their own board into a life-total swing before it hits the graveyard.