When a control player says “reset,” Divine Judgment is the kind of thing they’re dreaming about.
This is Riftbound’s cleanest, coldest equalizer yet—and it doesn’t care about your flashy gear or stacked hand. It hits both sides of the board with surgical precision, trims the fat, and leaves behind a perfectly curated skeleton crew.
For those who love late-game lockdown or just hate messy boards, Divine Judgment is a premium seven-cost scalpel in a world of hammers.
Gameplay / Cool Mechanics
Divine Judgment doesn’t destroy, it prunes. Each player chooses 2 units, 2 gear, 2 runes, and 2 cards in hand—everything else gets Recycled. No randomness. No “each opponent.”
Just pure mirrored judgment. It’s symmetrical on paper, but in practice? The player who casts it gets the upper hand by planning around the cull.
You prep your keepers, you bait your opponent into overextending, and then—boom. Clean slate.
This isn’t a board wipe. It’s a board audit.
It’s especially brutal against swarm decks, combo hands, or anyone relying on rune-stacking gimmicks.
If your deck is designed for midrange stability or toolbox value, this is your weapon. Divine Judgment doesn’t care about tempo. It’s about control—hard stop.
Visuals
The artwork goes hard on the thematic weight. No detailed scene, no characters. Just a swirling gold vortex bursting through an angry red void. It looks like a divine gavel slamming through molten air.
The radiant spiral feels cosmic, but that crimson background adds violence. This isn’t divine mercy—it’s divine minimalism with consequences.
Kudos Productions nailed the iconography: power, balance, and ruthless clarity all at once. It’s abstract, but you feel it.
Pull Rate & Value Speculation
Divine Judgment is card 244/298, a high-cost spell from the Riftbound core set. No alt art version has been revealed yet, but this kind of board-control finisher tends to see consistent play in both constructed and draft.
Its utility and symmetry make it attractive to collectors who favor clean mechanics and competitive control builds.
Whether or not it ends up in the meta depends on the speed of the format, but even if it doesn’t dominate ladder decks, it’s the kind of card that gets slotted into sideboards and remembered when things get grindy.
Foil versions of Divine Judgment could be in high demand for competitive players who appreciate surgical flavor.
Divine Judgment isn’t flashy—but it’s brutal in the way only balance cards can be. It’s not a splashy spell.
It’s a control freak’s dream scenario: perfect order, perfectly timed. Keep your six drops. I’ll keep the rules.
