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Desolation Giant

Multiverse ID: 29414

Desolation Giant

Comments (6)

holgir
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
You get a Wrath of God and a 3/3 for RedRed to attack the next turn (OK, creatures could still regenerate). This is a really underrated casual Wrath effect which goes as a crap rare moneywise, it has favoured me in many multiplayer games.
SachielOne
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@psyklone
When you pay the kicker, the "destroy all other creatures you control" effect gets replaced with "destroy all other creatures".
psyklone
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0) (4 votes)
This card is worded wierdly.
All creatures you control die if you don't kick it.
If you kick it, does ALL creatures other than this die, OR do all creatures other than what we just mentioned die (ie all opponents').

If you say "all other creatures", it means all but this one.
If you mention some creatures THEN say "all other creatures", it means all but them.
I'm pretty sure it a wrath of god like, but grammar has me guessing.

@sachielone
Yea I figured. But since this game is basically "whatever you can convince a judge of" and there isn't an official ruling on this card, I'd say its open for debate.
sarroth
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
It's like Desolation Angel for creatures. There isn't an official ruling on it because it isn't as complicated as you think; I've had the same thing happen to me where I wondered how a card couldn't have a ruling, then realized I was just way overthinking it. A judge wouldn't likely get this card wrong, and if they did, shame, shame shame.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
There have been worse six mana wraths before.
desolation_masticore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
This is very easy to understand.
"When Desolation Giant comes into play destroy all other creatures you control."
Okay so he nukes my other creatures.
"If you paid the kicker cost, destroy all other creatures instead."
Exact same wording dropping the "you control" clause, so every other creature in play. Seeing the two statements back to back should make this really simple. If you need a judge to figure this out then you are in the wrong game my friend.