Destroying Creatures feels very black but creating balance by cleaning the WHOLE field is very white. So it fits both colors very well. People that dont understand why WoG is a white spell are ignorant.
Also in what it actually does, it has more defensive values and white always has been the main color for board effects especially mass removal.
I bet if WoG would have said exile instead of destroy, black players wouldnt argue about it being white.
Plague Wind for reference is definitly black and a white version wouldnt be flavorful
Also remember that this set is planar chaos, which is about color bleed, where for example, green gets non condotional card draw (Harmonize) and white direct damage (Sunlance). I am not saying damnation doesnt makes sense in black flavor wise (because it does) but R&D just decided that Board Sweepers like WoG belong to white in the color pie. (Mainly to balance the color p... (see all)
Posted By:
ChaosK
(7/10/2011 3:23:53 AM)
Subspace bomb!
Posted By:
Axelle
(8/15/2011 1:05:20 PM)
This is the most aesthetically beautiful Magic card ever.
Posted By:
Fenix.
(5/26/2012 12:30:09 PM)
feels Awesome with white on black! And the art...
Posted By:
MadTheorist
(9/17/2009 6:18:26 AM)
In one of the first mtg packs I ever opened, I looked at my rare. It was a Planar Chaos pack. The rare sucked. Then, I noticed I had opened a foil copy of this, and I was happy.
Posted By:
greenzero
(9/11/2011 6:37:52 PM)
Terminate everything.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(8/18/2011 10:31:05 AM)
I love how there's a rule that tells us what the card is.
Posted By:
LuigiNumber1
(11/5/2011 2:12:14 PM)
Please, please be in Modern Masters 2. :-/
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(10/30/2013 8:15:46 PM)
M^SS removal is very {W}, it always has been. {W} is the great equalizer (although, it's funny how uneven m^ss removal like WoG and DoJ makes things for your opponent). For these reasons Damnation only exists in a set like Planar Chaos.
Posted By:
VirtueVsVice
(7/21/2010 9:04:57 PM)
WoG blows and this sucks.
(Don't one star this because you think I'm ignorant. One star this because I make terrible puns.)
Posted By:
Tommy9898
(7/31/2010 11:33:16 PM)