Wrath of the Skies — Wrath of the Skies x=2 destroyed Thought-Knot Seer despite spending no energy.

[matthewevans]

Reported in Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1485498006781427802/1529247797344338082/1529247797344338082

Thread: Wrath of the Skies
Discord thread id: 1529247797344338082
Discord message id: 1529247797344338082
Cards: thought-knot seer, wrath of the skies
Parser status: has_gaps
Extraction confidence: 0.90

Summary

Wrath of the Skies x=2 destroyed Thought-Knot Seer despite spending no energy.

Reported text

Wrath of the Skies x=2 destroyed Thought-Knot Seer despite spending no energy.

Attachments

• game-state-turn-7-2026-07-21T22-03-18-356Z.zip

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Oracle text (verified from client/public/card-data.json)

thought-knot seer

({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.

wrath of the skies

You get X {E} (energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value less than or equal to the amount of {E} paid this way.

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[mike-theDude]

Triage analysis

Clarified summary
Wrath of the Skies cast with X=2 destroyed Thought-Knot Seer even though no energy was paid.

Oracle text (verified from client/public/card-data.json)

You get X {E} (energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value less than or equal to the amount of {E} paid this way.

Investigation findings
The clause claims support and its skeleton is faithful: gain X energy, an optional payment of any amount of energy, and a mass destroy over artifacts, creatures and enchantments.

The destroy filter, however, records only the type restriction — "artifact or creature or enchantment" — with no mana-value bound at all. The "with mana value less than or equal to the amount of {E} paid this way" qualifier is absent, so the spell destroys every artifact, creature and enchantment on the battlefield regardless of what was paid. That is exactly the report, and the reported case is the clearest one: with no energy paid the threshold is zero, so nothing with a positive mana value should be destroyed, yet a mana value 4 creature died.

Two pieces are missing and they are separable: a quantity capturing how much energy was actually paid during this resolution, and a mana-value comparison on the destroy filter using it. The first is the less common of the two, since it must read a payment made mid-resolution rather than a cost paid on casting.

The severity here is high for a card of this type — an unbounded board wipe is a very different card from a scaled one.

Acceptance criteria

• Only permanents with mana value at most the energy paid during that resolution are destroyed.
• Paying zero energy destroys only mana value 0 permanents.
• Tokens with no mana cost are treated as mana value 0.
• The X energy is gained before the payment choice, and unpaid energy remains.

[mike-theDude]

Classifier analysis

Verdict: supported_aspect_defect

Matched clause: You get X {E} (energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value less than or equal to the amount of {E} paid this way. (supported: true)

Reasoning: The clause claims support and the energy gain, optional payment, and mass destroy are all present, but the destroy filter records only the type restriction with no mana-value bound — the 'less than or equal to the amount of {E} paid this way' qualifier is entirely absent. The spell therefore destroys every artifact, creature and enchantment regardless of payment, which the reported case demonstrates sharply: zero energy paid should set the threshold to zero, yet a mana value 4 creature was destroyed. Missing are a paid-energy quantity read mid-resolution and a mana-value comparison on the filter.

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Posted by bug-coverage-classifier skill.