I wanted to create a cycle of wrath variants, out of curiosity to see how they would feel. I specifically wanted to try to make ones that would be more useful once than to play several times, hence the toned-down (but still very useful, especially post-wrath) second abilities.

However, I don't really want 5 wraths in the same set. And I don't feel the second abilities will really ever get used?

The cycle I believe is Divine Cleansing, Global Rapture, Molten Holocaust and Dark Immolation.

Was that your whole comment? But yes. And yes, I see that I actually never made a green wrath which didn't suck, so it's not actually a real cycle.

Yeah, I was just posting the links for cross-reference for those who want to compare the cycle.

Ah, thank you! I should have done that. I might even be able to automate that in the spreadsheet, where cards are sort-of sorted into cycles, but it would be fiddly.

This cycle might have rules issues. I believe you would have to select a target creature (pointlessly) even if there's no copy of the card in your graveyard. That's kinda weird.

Here's a wording that's still awkward but less so:

"Exile all creatures facedown. If there's a card in your graveyard named Divine Cleansing, instead choose target creature. Exile that creature face down."

This way the target is selected upon the resolution of the spell, and not as its being cast.

Also, why the heck would you want to exile a creature face down? Everyone will already know what it is, unless its a face down creature like a creature with morph. When a morph creature leaves the battlefield though it should always be revealed to make cheating impossible.

Thank you, good point. It's probably better for the mode to be chosen at casting time, though I don't know if I could find good wording. The implications of being able to change the mode during casting hadn't occurred to me :)

To be honest, I thought these were an interesting experiment, an attempt to make wraths which were somewhat variable, and could possibly be not-rare without being unbalancing if there were too many of them. But actually, I don't know if the set truly benefits from them: it's probably better to take them all out and reconcept them as something similar that aren't wraths.

"Face down" is more of a joke than a serious part of the card. (Many of the cards are like that: many have been refined a bit into more acceptable cards, but started as something sillier.) The only point is, there are a small number of cards that interact with face-up exiled cards. This is just a way to emphasise "really, really, gone for good" :)

May I ask what does stand for in the mana cost? is it hybrid like those in spectral procession? On the card it does accomplish its job really well, i think if you have much more of these card, people will have more diverse decks, as one generally just puts 4x of the useful spells in his deck, quickly filling that 34-38 spell slots, this makes me want to only have one in the deck or ways to filter them from my hand once i have cast the first, aka Thirst for Knowledge or some sort.