Board wipes!
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Posted on Aug. 14, 2013, 2:41 p.m. by FaustHarbinger
I've seen alot of questions around the site lately asking about "What are some good board wipes to add to their decks?" so I figured I stat off a thread for everyone whether their into Casual, Commander, Stadard, or Modern. Post em'!
FaustHarbinger says... #3
Terminus - any white deck
Damnation - not standard and quite spendy but good
Bonfire of the Damned -- red. not so spendy anymore!
August 14, 2013 2:44 p.m.
Supreme Verdict - StandardMutilate - StandardMizzium Mortars - Standard
The last two could be considered board wipes if the conditions are right.
August 14, 2013 2:51 p.m.
Smith_and_Tonic says... #6
In a red EDH deck, you can use Blasphemous Act or Chain Reaction . They get better the more players there are.
August 14, 2013 2:56 p.m.
day of judgement , Planar Cleansing , Divine Reckoning , Akroma's Vengeance and Obliterate are some other options
August 14, 2013 2:59 p.m.
Voltron: Phyrexian Rebirth , Divine Reckoning (I still get one big creature to buff up)
Reanimator: Ratchet Bomb , Gaze of Granite (for the targetted / limited /controlled wiping), Pestilence (for repeated wiping of low toughness creatures or to repeatedly beat down creatures with activated regeneration abilities - and even for a finisher if needed), Novablast Wurm (repeated board wiping until someone deals with it)
If I have no access to W, I use Cyclonic Rift , Devastation Tide , and AEtherize
Against tokens: Ratchet Bomb
When I have a disproportionate amount of artifacts in play: Scourglass
When my own strategy does not rely on having more than a small number of creatures: Killing Wave (also works great as a finisher to math things out ahead of time where keeping a blocker kills them but so does not keeping it)
Although Terminus is a good card, it isn't that great for any of the decks I might use it in (tokens don't ever come back from being decked, voltron self destructs unless Terminus is used veeeerrrrry carefully, reanimator wants things in graveyards, direct damage wants to wipe AND burn)
Although I can appreciate the power of Bonfire of the Damned against token decks, both the monetary and the mana cost are a bit heavy compared to Earthquake and Hurricane - at least in my opinion - and especially in multiplayer games. Usually it can be worked out so that everyone else besides me and maybe one other person dies from it by dealing out damage judiciously before dropping one of those.
August 14, 2013 3:04 p.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #9
I mean, Jokulhaups is pretty legendary in commander.
August 14, 2013 3:04 p.m.
atreyujames says... #13
the true board wipes. Apocalypse , Upheaval , Worldfire , and the kinda the Karn Liberated ultimate
August 14, 2013 4:18 p.m.
I find true board wipes harder to use (and MLD is something I haven't learned to enjoy as of yet) - I definitely prefer strategic partial board wipes. I used to like Sunblast Angel until I think it became a little bit too expected - it is more fun to run it when people are tapping out for kills and things rather than being more guarded and conservative.
The partial board wipes are nice in EDH because the multiplayer format makes target removal less valuable and there are so many hexproof / shroud things out there (especially artifacts).
August 15, 2013 10:58 a.m.
SharuumNyan says... #15
Yep, Scourglass in EDH if you're playing artifacts. Bring it in with Master Transmuter during your upkeep and use it right away!
August 15, 2013 12:39 p.m.
Life's Finale board wipe plus get rid of 3 creatures in their deck.
February 23, 2014 12:26 a.m.
megawurmple says... #17
Wow. That is a very impressive necro. This thread was dead for over half a year.
February 23, 2014 8:59 a.m.
KrosanTusker says... #18
*Appropriate tutting noises * (We're very British)
February 23, 2014 10:01 a.m.
Azuleblood says... #19
Standard favorite board wipe- Supreme Verdict Modern- Mutilate (not the ugly M13 Art)
February 23, 2014 10:02 a.m.
KrosanTusker says... #20
I know, right! Gotta have the duel deck art or don't run it at all!
February 24, 2014 2:33 p.m.
I have built a mono-White board wipe deck, using Mageta the Lion as the commander.
I haven't posted it on the site yet, but there are a large number of board wipes in it...
- Fated Retribution
- Wrath of God
- Day of Judgment
- Akroma's Vengeance
- Planar Cleansing
- Kirtar's Wrath
- Divine Reckoning
- Sudden Disappearance
.... I know I've missed a lot from my deck... and there are many (some better) cards that I don't have.
Then there are the PW's...
- Elspeth Tirel
- Ultimate
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion
's -3
- Gideon, Champion of Justice - Ultimate
And, of course, there are artifacts...
- Nevinyrral's Disk
- To be replaced with Magus of the Disk
when I get one.
- Worldslayer
- There are more, but I didn't want many artifacts in the deck, because I use Stony Silence
and creatures...
- Sunblast Angel
- Mageta the Lion - Commander
After that, the deck's about indestructible creatures, things like Rootborn Defenses and things like Bestow, so that I have stuff after the board wipes.
I call the deck "Last Man Standing" - People are probably going to hate it!
February 24, 2014 3:45 p.m.
nobu_the_bard says... #24
I don't mind the thread Necromancy
here because there's a lot of good ones unmentioned.
Some creature wipes others I didn't see above:
Bane of the Living
, Kagemaro, First to Suffer
, Toxic Deluge
Some artifact wipes:
Vandalblast
, Shatterstorm
, Creeping Corrosion
, Pulverize
, Seeds of Innocence
Some enchantment wipes:
Back to Nature
, Calming Verse
, Cleanfall
, Cleansing Meditation
, Essence Filter
, Hush
, Tempest of Light
, Tranquil Domain
, Tranquility
There's a bunch that overlap artifact/enchantment wipes but I don't have the time to list them right now.
February 24, 2014 4:19 p.m.
guerillarage says... #27
Don't forget Oblivion Stone . Also Myojin of Cleansing Fire . combine it with That Which Was Taken for shenanigans.
February 24, 2014 8:59 p.m.
SharuumNyan says... #29
Not technically board wipes, but Inundate can be effective if you're playing mono-blue, and Wash Out .
February 24, 2014 9:18 p.m.
megawurmple says... #31
Is this thread a necro bump magnet or something? This is the second time now.
October 17, 2014 11:58 a.m.
There is only ONE complete boardwipe card, it's Apocalypse. That is the only way to eliminate everything.
April 17, 2015 11:40 p.m.
Here's a standard brew I made based around board wipes! Plz give me some feedback on this!
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/meandering-duneblast/
August 19, 2015 10:14 p.m.
For Commander that I haven't seen posted yet:
Whipflare, Massacre Wurm and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite for tiny wrath
Cataclysm for voltron
October 3, 2015 3:55 p.m.
Retribution of the Meek seems to get no love as a board wipe. It's great for weenie decks.
erabel says... #2
Wrath of God , Damnation , Cyclonic Rift are all good ones in whatever format allows 'em.
August 14, 2013 2:44 p.m.