History Main / MassCardRemoval

** ''VideoGame/CardCityNights1'': Some cards will remove all placed down cards when part of an attack combo:

** ''VideoGame/CardCityNights2'': When Alpha Strike resolves and therefore leaves the board, it takes out all other cards with it, except one randomly chosen survivor.

** Killmonger destroys all cards on the board that have 1 or less cost, player or opponent, making him this trope against zoo decks.
** The Destroyer destroys all the player's cards on the board, in exchange for having a massive 15 power for its 6 cost.
** Galactus takes things even further -- when his effect successfully triggers, he ''[[PlanetEater removes the two locations he isn't on from the game]]'' and destroys all cards on them, [[NoSavingThrow even if they are invulnerable to destruction]] or if the location was locked down by Professor X. However, to trigger this effect upon reveal, he needs to be the player's only card on the location while having more power on the location, and his rather weak base power of 5 for his 6 cost means it requires good preparation to pull off successfully.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelSnap'': There are a number of cards that can remove mass amounts of cards, both on your side or the opponent's. Removing your own cards can have a benefit, as a maximum of 4 cards per player can be on one location, and certain cards have beneficial effects upon removal:

** Galactus takes things even further -- when his effect successfully triggers, he ''[[PlanetEater removes two of the three locations from the game]]'' that he isn't on and destroys all cards on them, [[NoSavingThrow even if they are invulnerable to destruction]] or if the location was locked down by Professor X. However, to trigger this effect upon reveal, he needs to be the player's only card on the location while having more power on the location, and his rather weak base power of 5 for his 6 cost means it requires good preparation to pull off successfully.

** Galactus takes things even further -- when his effect successfully triggers, he ''[[PlanetEater removes two of the three locations from the game]]'' and destroys all cards on them, [[NoSavingThrow even if they are invulnerable to destruction]] or if the location was locked down by Professor X. However, to trigger this effect upon reveal, he needs to be the player's only card on the location while having more power on the location, and his rather weak base power of 5 for his 6 cost means it requires good preparation to pull off successfully.

** Galactus takes things even further -- when his effect successfully triggers, he ''[[PlanetEater removes two of the three locations from the game]]'', destroying all cards on them, even if they are invulnerable to destruction or if the location was locked down by Professor X.

** Zombot 1000 is a 9/9 Zombie Teammate that destroys all Plant teammates when played. However, as turn order has plants play their teammates after Zombies, it means they can still put more units on the board before the attack phase.

** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Divine_Arsenal_AA-ZEUS_-_Sky_Thunder Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder]] is a Rank 12 Xyz Monster that can send all cards on the field to the Graveyard as a Quick Effect by detaching 2 Xyz Materials. If that weren't enough, it doesn't even have a once per turn or even once per Chain restriction on its effect, allowing it to dodge negates by simply activating its effect again in response, material permitting.

*** Raigeki: Targets just the enemy
*** Dark Hole targets both sides of the field.
** Black Rose Dragon is a Synchro Monster that gives its controller the option to destroy every card on the field, including itself, when it is Synchro Summoned.
** Divine Arsenal AA-Zeus is an Xyz monster that can send all cards on the field to the Graveyard at Spell Speed 2, and can even activate this effect multiple times in a chain to force the effects through negations.
** Inferno Tempest removes all monsters in each player's Deck and Graveyard from play.
** Topologic Zeroboros mandatorily banishes all cards on the field when a monster is Special Summoned to a zone a Link Monster points to. While it also banishes itself, it can summons itself from the banish pile in the next turn after it used its effect.
** Nibiru, the Primal Being is a hand trap designed to punish overextension by being able to mass tribute all monsters on the field if the opponent summons more than 5 monsters in 1 turn.
** Evenly Matched: An incredibly powerful mass removal "hand trap", which forces the opponent to [[DeaderThanDead banish cards they control face-down]] until they control the same amount of cards as the player. By being able to be activated from the hand on an empty board, doing so will force the opponent to banish all but 1 of their cards (as the player controls Evenly Matched on the field at resolution).

Related to MassTeleportation due to both working on a large number of targets and targetting an area instead of just a person. A type of WeaponOfXSlaying where X is "things in a location", and also a type of SmartBomb. While intended as {{Comeback Mechanic}}s, if board wiping effects are improperly balanced by being too cheap or too abusable, they can often be perceived as {{Game Breaker}}s.

*** Princess Pitch DX, since the card is based off of a screen-clearing attack in her home game.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Netrunner}}'': Trashing is the word for removing from the game into a "dead card" zone. Location cards host program cards, and most trash effects only trash one card at a time, but the London Library trashes all cards that are still hosted on it at the end of its player's turn. Which could be a lot of programs, making this a downplayed mass removal since it's not guaranteed to be "mass".

* ''VideoGame/CardCityNights1'': Some cards will remove all placed down cards when part of an attack combo:
** Princess Pitch DX, since the card is based off of a screen-clearing attack in her home game.
** Mildagard DX

*** Balance forces all players to discard cards and sacrifice creatures and lands until they control the same number as the player with the least amount of cards in hand/creatures/lands, which can be 0. But it has no effect on artifacts or enchantments.
*** Oblivion Stone: Destroy everything on the board except specially marked things on the board, marks that only it can generate, at a 4 mana cost and disabling the card for the turn or until reenabled, whichever happens first.

*** Jokulhaups does just that.
*** "Obliterate" can't be countered.
** Nevinyrral's Disk: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

*** Wrath of God / Damnation, an orb of white / black that's floating above a few or many people being ReducedToDust, respectively, and costing 2 of any mana and two mana of the aforementioned colors. They destroys all creatures and prevents them from regenerating.
*** Flamebreak: Flamebreak deals 3 damage to each creature without flying and each player.
*** Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.
*** Starstorm:

*** Shatterstorm destroys everyone's Artifacts.
*** Furnace Dragon will exile every artifact if summoned from the hand.
** Tranquility destroys everyone's Enchantments

*** Armageddon: Destroy everyone's lands

*** Pernicious Deed: Sacrifice Pernicious Deed: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value X or less.
*** Engineered Explosives can only affect cards of typically 5 or less mana value, unless an effect to add more charge counters to it applies, since "This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it." and there's only 5 colors.

Related to MassTeleportation due to both working on a large number of targets and targetting an area instead of just a person. A type of WeaponOfXSlaying where X is "things in a location". While intended as {{Comeback Mechanic}}s, if board wiping effects are improperly balanced by being too cheap or too abusable, they can often be perceived as {{Game Breaker}}s.

** Apostate's Apocalypse card destroys all cards other than Relics (which his deck specialises in). The only reason it's not nastier than Devastating Aurora is that there's a delay before it activates, giving you the opportunity to destroy it first.

* Board clears in ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' come in two varieties: cards that deal a certain amount of damage to all minions, and cards that destroy or remove minions directly. Class identity is a big deal in ''Hearthstone'', so every class has their own unique way of keeping the board clear - with Druids, Hunters, Paladins, and Rogues being in part characterized by a relative ''lack'' of board clears instead.

*** Mage goes the BoringButPractical route, featuring simple "deal X damage to all enemy minions" for the most part. Other board clears involve shooting damaging missiles at random enemies - great against a board of 1-health minions, but not so useful against a board of 4-health minions.

* Board clears in ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' come in two varieties: cards that deal a certain amount of damage to all minions, and cards that destroy or remove minions directly. Class identity is a big deal in ''Hearthstone'', so every class has their own unique way of keeping the board clear - with Druids, Hunters, Paladins, and Rogues being in part characterized by a relative ''lack'' of board clears instead.

** Mage goes the BoringButPractical route, featuring simple "deal X damage to all enemy minions" for the most part. Other board clears involve shooting damaging missiles at random enemies - great against a board of 1-health minions, but not so useful against a board of 4-health minions.

** Shaman has raw damage board clears much like Mage, but they can be played much earlier. However, they have an Overload cost to them, causing the Shaman to have X less mana on the following turn. Early on, Shaman [=AoE=] also dealt [[LuckBasedMission variable damage]], although this was dropped in an attempt to iron unfun RNG out of the game.
** Warlock likewise has cheaper board clears than other classes, [[PowerAtAPrice but they come with even worse downsides like discarding cards, damaging your own hero, or removing cards from your deck]]. They also have access to Twisting Nether, an 8-mana spell that simply destroys all minions.

** Since class identity is so core, Neutral board clears are rare and often underpowered as they can be played in any class. Take Deathwing, a 12/12 minion for 10 that destroys all minions, but also requires you to discard your entire hand.