A red card that deals with enchantments. Few of those exist. :)
stygimoloch
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(5 votes)
It's been overshadowed somewhat by Obliterate, and on the whole Obliterate is the better card, but Apocalypse is still a fine card too.
DrJones
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(3 votes)
This and Balancing Act have been the best sweepers ever for ernhamgeddon strategies (that is, emptying the board leaving a fattie on your side). This one works specially well with madness, flashback and Greater Gargadon, and it probably will just get better as the time passes, as most of the cards in tempest block, and unlike the cards in MOST OTHER BLOCKS (save Time Spiral) which become useless cardboard after they leave standard.
Skybreaker
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
The essence of red mana ...
kitsunewarlock
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card gets 4 stars just for flavor. Enourmous sweeper. And while cards like Neverill's Disk and Johakulops were more frequently played in red burn, this card wasn't something to entirely ignore. Sure Obliterate seems much better...unless your playing an extremely aggressive burn or burn-discard deck and have no need (save for this card) for more than 2-3 land. Once your out of bolts/kindles/etc..., just use this...
Arachibutyrophobia
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
I like this card because unlike Obliterate, Wrath of God, or Planar Cleansing, this card actually gets rid of everything! I just wish it didn't make you discard your hand.
shoalsuser2004
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This + Hive Mind and you won't be the only one discarding your hand.
18scsc
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
the proginteas ender
PhyrexianLobbiest
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(7 votes)
This card should actually read "Game over. Start a new game."
I think the most likely way this allows you to win the game is by making everyone else forfiet, and then beat the living day lights out of you in real life for ruining the game.
Jackflap
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Two cards deserve nerdy references to movies about nuclear war. Last Laugh in multiplayer, and this in any format.
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Notably red's only spell that can get rid of enchantments. It does a little more than that, though. Well, simply what an Apocalypse is ought to do.
And it's not really comparable to Obliterate in my opinion. It's not triple red and costs 8 mana in total, neither removes enchantments nor planeswalkers, it destroys the stuff rather then exiling it and instead of forcing you to discard your hand it can't be countered. Both are red ma.ss removal, but aside from that they're two completely different spells.
I actually put a copy of this in a deck because I was getting so tired of Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere getting used on all my good stuff. So I use this to exile everything and leave my good stuff standing alone.
You could put it in a R/W Control deck, Oblivion Ring your own Elspeth/Gideon Jura/whatever else, use your remaining man to bolt/path any creatures that can hit you in the face now, then play this, then win as the oly person left with anything.
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I may be wrong but... I think this works with Reckless Wurm. Add 2RRR and 2R to your pool and cast Apocalypse, you can cast Wurn when you discard your hand.
Kryptnyt
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
If only every permanent were Wary like Norin.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(38 votes)
"Well, we managed to finally get rid of that goddamned enchantment...."
Arthindole
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Suspend some baddies with Jhoira then drop this BOMB!
bijart_dauth
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(8 votes)
too bad nico bolas doesn't survive this. Kinda kills one of his coolest quotes from the books
"I've survived more apocalypses that you've had chest colds"
PhyrexianAdvocate
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(17 votes)
For when absolutely everything must die.
Indestructible? Not good enough.
Shroud? Don't even bother.
Protection from colored spells? From everything? Get over yourself.
The list of things that survive this card is very very short. It includes cards that are phased out, cards which are suspended or otherwise flickered out when it resolves.
I have yet to find a single card, or combination of cards, in the entire game that can "sit" through this without leaving play via phasing or flickering. I'm not sure that one exists.
Is it really practical? Not really, except in a very specific kind of deck. But it gets 5 stars for being the absolute peak of removal. Nothing else surpasses this in terms of clearing the board of stuff. And the best part? It's red.
OverfiendSurprise
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
1) Buried Alive fetching 3 Bloodghasts 2) cast this with Dakmor Salvage in hand 3) dredge, landfall, you have a nice head start in the race to rebuild.
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This exists? Holy crap, I'll take 4.
Now, the discarding isn't much of a drawback when there's a Hive Mind in play, is it?
Greater Gargadon goes extremely well with this. Cast Apocalypse on your 5th turn and kill people with the Gargadon afterwards.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Way to make people never play with you again:
Sac all your lands (after tapping) to Squandered Resources, send other permanents through further mana-less sac engines (e.g., Ashnod's Altar, Altar Of Dementia for some evil milling, perhaps fuel Claws of Gix with the mana from Ashnod's altar...) until your board is almost empty and your mana pool is full.
If your opponent is playing blue and has free mana and cards, tap Boseiju, Who Shelters All, and, better yet, somehow untap this land to get another mana, then squander it.
Then play Apocalypse using the other "counterproof" mana.
Revel in the abject misery of your opponent. :)
Atali
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@Superllama Apocalypse is a rare, this effect is far beyond the scope of an uncommon, no matter what era you're in, it simply predates the use of colored expansion symbols to indicate rarity.
My favorite combo with Apocalypse is quite simple: Ramp up massive mana (minimum 8), float all of it, then cast Apocalypse. After the board is exiled, you discard your hand, and use the floating mana to cast the Arrogant Wurms, Reckless Wurms, Basking Rootwallas, Gorgon Recluses, Brain Gorgers onto the now barren battlefield. If you can go off around turn 4-5 (not too hard if you're willing to sacrifice everything for manayour opponents will probably have depleted the lands in their hand and won't be able to play anything for a while, leaving your creatures unopposed.
the single shadow this cards flavor text mentions IS Norin the Wary also I was just saying to a friend that I wished there was a card that absolutely got rid of every permanent no matter what.
unfortunetly this falls short of the imaginary card I described to him because it can be countered.
also I know it's akward but I feel this card may have some synergy with portculus
Nagoragama
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
I wonder what future this vision foretells. Who is the single person, alone in the mists?
tcollins
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Potentially hilarious with Hivemind in multiplayer, get rid of EVERYTHING and everyone is now topdecking!
Shadoflaam
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(4 votes)
@Nagoragama: Again, Norin the Wary. That guy survives EVERYTHING. And there's a Storm Crow above him.
Tynansdtm
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Goes well with Ignorant Bliss, which is also the card known for getting you Hellbent in a flash.
LordRandomness
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
JUST ****ING DIE: The card.
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Run with Time Reversal for a full game reset. Except that some stuff is exiled, I guess.
Karkain
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Caged Sun to ramp mana Summon Worldgorger Dragon Cast Apocalypse Win
Oh. It appears I was mistaken on some of my earlier posted comments to cards like Slagstorm and Chain Reaction.
This is Red's Wrath of God card. Yeah, probably. That must have been what they were thinking.
Ummm....damn. O.o
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Suspend something and play this, easiest win ever..
GlassJoetheChamp
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
"Whoops, I accidentally Oblivion Ringed my own creature. My mistake."
ereidivh
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I always preface playing this card with about 15 seconds contemplating my dismal board situation, then sadly shaking my head while lamenting "I do not like this, Sam I Am".
darkfury
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can i run 8 of them?
Visionary_13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To quote Obliterate, "The enemy has been destroyed, sir. So have the forest, the city, your palace, your dog . . ."
A truly marvelous card, except for the fact that I have to discard my hand whilst my opponent's remains intact. Still, if it works, it works.
Lord_Ascapelion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
HURRY! HURRY! COME DOWN TO CRAZY VOLRATH'S BARGAIN EMPORIUM! EVERYTHING MUST GO AND WE MEANT EVERYTHING!!!
I tried making a deck with this and Worldgorger Dragon, back in the day... it wasn't very efficiently constructed. I kind of want to go back and use this, again. Discarding your hand is a pretty nasty disadvantage to just using this in any deck, so you kind of have to build around it.
I love this when they Oblivion Ring away your Griselbrand or something.
"Uh, yea, I think I'm just gonna kill everything, get my griselbrand back, and draw a new hand. Yup, I just Wrath'd, Armageddon'd, Wheel of Fortuned, and got out a flying 7/7 with Life Link at the same time."
Frenzy13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Speed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear fight height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left for west in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population's common, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart beat. Dummy with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalade. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide Mount Saint Edelite Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
Or you can just suspend it in a Jhoira deck and watch your EDH buddies play through a very tense and awkward four turns.
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Salient: Forget Sudden Disappearance, play Ghostway. Save 3 mana. and two cards isn't bad to exile everything except your opponent's hand and your creatures.
I used to run this in a red burn deck. The next most expensive card was 3 mana, and the deck burned out fast. I decided to embrace the burnout. I think I at most lost 1 card in hand playing this, but my opponents lost a lot more.
Now its in my Maelstrom Wanderer EDH. Cascading into this is devastating. Worryingly, almost distastefully powerful. Sure, your opponents will gang up on you, but you have a 7/5 creature with haste (And hopefully something else from the cascade) and all they have are their hands. Decree of Annihilation, Obliterate and Worldfire are all too expensive to cascade into. (Plus Worldfire is banned.)
I cannot stress enough how amazing it is with this to break the symmetry even a little. Maelstrom Wanderer is unpredictable enough that it's still fun though. People hold their breath as you flip the top card over.
SeriouslyFacetious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Enelysios: I agree about how powerful it is to break the symmetry on this card... I use it in my Soldier themed Tajic EDH deck. It's an army that specializes in operating "after the bomb".
I like to cast this during my first main phase then activate Legion's Initiative in response. It's a devastating play...
Comments (57)
I think the most likely way this allows you to win the game is by making everyone else forfiet, and then beat the living day lights out of you in real life for ruining the game.
It does a little more than that, though. Well, simply what an Apocalypse is ought to do.
And it's not really comparable to Obliterate in my opinion.
It's not triple red and costs 8 mana in total, neither removes enchantments nor planeswalkers, it destroys the stuff rather then exiling it and instead of forcing you to discard your hand it can't be countered.
Both are red ma.ss removal, but aside from that they're two completely different spells.
"I've survived more apocalypses that you've had chest colds"
Indestructible? Not good enough.
Shroud? Don't even bother.
Protection from colored spells? From everything? Get over yourself.
The list of things that survive this card is very very short. It includes cards that are phased out, cards which are suspended or otherwise flickered out when it resolves.
I have yet to find a single card, or combination of cards, in the entire game that can "sit" through this without leaving play via phasing or flickering. I'm not sure that one exists.
Is it really practical? Not really, except in a very specific kind of deck. But it gets 5 stars for being the absolute peak of removal. Nothing else surpasses this in terms of clearing the board of stuff. And the best part? It's red.
2) cast this with Dakmor Salvage in hand
3) dredge, landfall, you have a nice head start in the race to rebuild.
Now, the discarding isn't much of a drawback when there's a Hive Mind in play, is it?
Sac all your lands (after tapping) to Squandered Resources, send other permanents through further mana-less sac engines (e.g., Ashnod's Altar, Altar Of Dementia for some evil milling, perhaps fuel Claws of Gix with the mana from Ashnod's altar...) until your board is almost empty and your mana pool is full.
If your opponent is playing blue and has free mana and cards, tap Boseiju, Who Shelters All, and, better yet, somehow untap this land to get another mana, then squander it.
Then play Yawgmoth's Will using one "counterproof" mana.
Then play Apocalypse using the other "counterproof" mana.
Revel in the abject misery of your opponent. :)
Apocalypse is a rare, this effect is far beyond the scope of an uncommon, no matter what era you're in, it simply predates the use of colored expansion symbols to indicate rarity.
My favorite combo with Apocalypse is quite simple: Ramp up massive mana (minimum 8), float all of it, then cast Apocalypse. After the board is exiled, you discard your hand, and use the floating mana to cast the Arrogant Wurms, Reckless Wurms, Basking Rootwallas, Gorgon Recluses, Brain Gorgers onto the now barren battlefield. If you can go off around turn 4-5 (not too hard if you're willing to sacrifice everything for manayour opponents will probably have depleted the lands in their hand and won't be able to play anything for a while, leaving your creatures unopposed.
also I was just saying to a friend that I wished there was a card that absolutely got rid of every permanent no matter what.
unfortunetly this falls short of the imaginary card I described to him because it can be countered.
also I know it's akward but I feel this card may have some synergy with portculus
Except that some stuff is exiled, I guess.
Summon Worldgorger Dragon
Cast Apocalypse
Win
This is Red's Wrath of God card. Yeah, probably. That must have been what they were thinking.
Ummm....damn. O.o
A truly marvelous card, except for the fact that I have to discard my hand whilst my opponent's remains intact. Still, if it works, it works.
I tried making a deck with this and Worldgorger Dragon, back in the day... it wasn't very efficiently constructed. I kind of want to go back and use this, again. Discarding your hand is a pretty nasty disadvantage to just using this in any deck, so you kind of have to build around it.
Also see:
Decree of Annihilation
Worldfire
"Uh, yea, I think I'm just gonna kill everything, get my griselbrand back, and draw a new hand. Yup, I just Wrath'd, Armageddon'd, Wheel of Fortuned, and got out a flying 7/7 with Life Link at the same time."
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Speed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear fight height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left for west in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population's
common, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart beat. Dummy with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalade. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide Mount Saint Edelite
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
Also: "who is the single shadow?"
Keep your board state;
Or you can just suspend it in a Jhoira deck and watch your EDH buddies play through a very tense and awkward four turns.
I used to run this in a red burn deck. The next most expensive card was 3 mana, and the deck burned out fast. I decided to embrace the burnout. I think I at most lost 1 card in hand playing this, but my opponents lost a lot more.
Now its in my Maelstrom Wanderer EDH. Cascading into this is devastating. Worryingly, almost distastefully powerful. Sure, your opponents will gang up on you, but you have a 7/5 creature with haste (And hopefully something else from the cascade) and all they have are their hands. Decree of Annihilation, Obliterate and Worldfire are all too expensive to cascade into. (Plus Worldfire is banned.)
I cannot stress enough how amazing it is with this to break the symmetry even a little. Maelstrom Wanderer is unpredictable enough that it's still fun though. People hold their breath as you flip the top card over.
I like to cast this during my first main phase then activate Legion's Initiative in response. It's a devastating play...