Villainous Wrath
Sorcery
Target opponent loses life equal to the number of creatures they control. Then destroy all creatures.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $1.47
- EDHREC rank
- #5890
Villainous Wrath puts a creature's power directly on the stack as damage — land it on anything above a 4/4 and it's a one-sided board wipe with upside. The cost scales with ambition, but Norman Osborn and similar token-doubling commanders routinely pump something large enough to make this the most efficient mass-removal spell in their colors.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Norman Osborn
Norman Osborn's ability to copy tokens means his creatures grow large fast, and Villainous Wrath converts that inflated power directly into a board-clearing damage burst that hits every opponent's field at once.
Eddie Brock
Eddie Brock builds symbiote tokens that stack +1/+1 counters aggressively, and Villainous Wrath cashes in that investment as damage — the bigger the board gets, the more devastating the payoff.
Venom, Deadly Devourer
Venom, Deadly Devourer rewards you for sacrificing creatures to grow a single massive threat, and Villainous Wrath turns that accumulated power into a targeted wrath that can end combat before it begins.
Mister Negative
Mister Negative flips small stats into large ones and vice versa, giving you reliable access to high-power creatures early, which makes Villainous Wrath a cheap removal option that scales well ahead of curve.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Villainous Wrath is a Commander card through and through — the redundancy and board-state complexity of multiplayer games give you reliable access to large creatures, and targeting your own biggest threat to sweep opponents' boards is exactly the kind of asymmetric value Commander rewards. In 1v1 formats like Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, the sorcery speed and variable cost make it too slow and conditional against tuned linear decks that either go under it or play few creatures worth targeting. Standard players might find niche use in midrange mirrors where large creatures are plentiful, but purpose-built sweepers at fixed costs do that job more reliably. It's legal across the competitive formats but built for the one where board states get out of hand.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.47 cheap tier
At $1.47, Villainous Wrath sits in the cheapest tier of Commander staples — low enough to slot into any Spider-Man or symbiote build without hesitation. Given its narrow home in token-and-counter Commander decks and its Marvel Universes Beyond print run, this price is stable rather than a deal that disappears.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Norman Osborn
- Eddie Brock
- Venom, Deadly Devourer
- Mister Negative
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.