Here's where things get tricky there aren't any other mono-white board wipes to do an apples to apples comparison at that same CMC. Okay, so we've established Wrath's Alpha status, literally as well as figuratively. The same holds true of Gahiji where 28 deck cooks have done the same.Īnd by the same I mean "done the wrong thing".
Still there are somehow 45 Marath decks running Day and no Wrath meaning those brewmasters pulled the better board wipe for the poorer one. This means Marath, Will of the Wild and Gahiji, Honored One came in decks with Wrath and without Day of Judgment. Sram, Senior Edificer is at 50 exactly, Brago, King Eternal is at 118, Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is at 84 and Aurelia, the Warleader is at 66.Īs I mentioned Wrath was included in a Commander set, namely the Nature of the Beast precon in 2013. Still, looking at the most frequently played white commanders both in mono-white and in the four white color pairs we find each with 50+ decks in the database running Day of Judgment and not Wrath of God. And unlike Day of Judgment, Wrath has actually shown up in a Commander set back in 2013. Wrath also has significantly more printings showing up in 20+ sets to just 6 for Day of Judgment so finding one shouldn't be a challenge. That's not nothing, particularly when you're staring at a Thrun, the Last Troll strapped to four swords.Īs mentioned previously Day of Judgment is a bit more budget friendly than Wrath of God, but the difference is only about three dollars at the time of writing. There are 206 creatures in Magic that can be regenerated or regenerate another creature as a base ability, and 14 commanders that can regenerate or regenerate another creature. Outside those few rare cases (Cromat and Ragnar being the two with white color identities and baked-in regeneration) you probably want to prevent the option. I said almost-always and not strictly better because if your Commander itself has regeneration I can see an argument being made to downgrade to Day. Wrath of God is an almost-always better Day of Judgment in that the creatures destroyed cannot be regenerated. And there's even less excuse for it when you realize that Magic printed a strictly better Day of Judgment way back on day one in Alpha.Ĭonsumed by the desert in a sand storm which lasted a whole year.
#THE EYE OF JUDGEMENT CARDS WINDOWS#
I mean, yeah, you could get your car without power windows and lower them with a hand crank like some kind of old-timey poor, but this is 2018 we've had electricity for thirty or so years at this point if my math is right. So why should you not run it? Because it's the most basic of board wipes, the base model, the contractor's beige.
Fourth, maybe you're running a Mike Pence-themed deck and you want as many cards as possible referencing the end times or doing totally not creepy things like referring to your spouse as Mother. Third, Day of Judgement is like a buck, and that's a big deal for the value conscious among us. Second, some decks just want all the board wipes, whether it's Avacyn, Angel of Hope or most superfriends decks. Getting that hasty dragon down for a swing into a blocker-free board can be huge. First, at four mana Day leaves you room to rebuild your game state post-wipe before anyone else. Now I'll do that thing where I acknowledge there are legit reasons to run the card, because there are. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it. And if you're running Day of Judgment you're wrong. Everyone loves that, being told they're wrong. Welcome back to In the Margins, a periodic column where I tell you that you're wrong. Currently, there are 14,030 decks in the EDHREC database running Day of Judgment and not a single one of them should have it as part of the 99.