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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" :)
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.