I'm trying to find cards that can deal with lots of tokens or lots of creatures all at once. Ideally the card would be good against both strategies. Wrath effects are an option that I am aware of, but they cost about 4 mana to cast minimum and are typically sorceries. Are the big wraths really the best option? Some one-sided cards that I've considered:
Echoing Truth - It can only hit one type of token, the plus is it bounces other things too. Ætherize - One sided bounce/kill attacking creatures/tokens no matter their size. Marrow Shards - Tokens tends to play anthems so this doesn't seem ideal.
Black has Illness in the Ranks and more that do a great job. Red has tons of tiny wraths like Electrickery, Pyroclasm, and the like. I'm looking for answers outside of those colour options. What are some cheap effective ways to deal with tokens or lots of creatures without black or red?
Don't forget Ratchet Bomb. Explosives is great but you really want to be a 3 color deck to use it. Ratchet Bomb is a little less versatile but can be played reliably with fewer colors.
If you have Islands Vedalken Shackles really messes with the token decks too. You get to steal one of their tokens then make it trade with their other token. Even when they have anthems so their guy doesn't die it manages to effectively kill one per turn.
Against tokens, you play footballs (Engineered Explosives/Ratchet Bomb). 2 colorless, whether up front to cast or delayed as the activation cost, gets you a mass horizontal wipe against tokens (which, as you probably already know, typically have converted mana cost of 0)...
except for when those tokens are copies of other creatures. Twin shenanigans get around this unless you can either Sunburst for 3 (and not die immediately after because you still need 2 more mana to crack EE), or durdle for 3 turns to ratchet up RB (which wouldn't work the way you'd want it to because hurp durp tap shenanigans), because (again, you probably know this) they copy all traits of the source card, right down to cmc.
There's also Sunscour, which gets you a "free" boardwipe, but the problem with that is it's sorcery speed and quite card disadvantageous if you're not wiping a lopsided field that's highly in their favor.
You could also go all Gifts-Rites and whip out Elesh Norn from the grave. Should be quite effective against most token/critter spam strats.
Echoing Truth - It can only hit one type of token, the plus is it bounces other things too.
Ætherize - One sided bounce/kill attacking creatures/tokens no matter their size.
Marrow Shards - Tokens tends to play anthems so this doesn't seem ideal.
Black has Illness in the Ranks and more that do a great job. Red has tons of tiny wraths like Electrickery, Pyroclasm, and the like. I'm looking for answers outside of those colour options. What are some cheap effective ways to deal with tokens or lots of creatures without black or red?
Engineered Explosives
Detention Sphere
Hail Storm
Lightmine Field
Leonin Bladetrap
Droning Bureaucrats
If you have Islands Vedalken Shackles really messes with the token decks too. You get to steal one of their tokens then make it trade with their other token. Even when they have anthems so their guy doesn't die it manages to effectively kill one per turn.
ratchet bomb
engineered explosives
both are okay, but one-time use is eh
scattershot archer - good against souls but dies easily
jace, architect of thought blanks them
playing white? just use boardwipes or your own tokens.
except for when those tokens are copies of other creatures. Twin shenanigans get around this unless you can either Sunburst for 3 (and not die immediately after because you still need 2 more mana to crack EE), or durdle for 3 turns to ratchet up RB (which wouldn't work the way you'd want it to because hurp durp tap shenanigans), because (again, you probably know this) they copy all traits of the source card, right down to cmc.
There's also Sunscour, which gets you a "free" boardwipe, but the problem with that is it's sorcery speed and quite card disadvantageous if you're not wiping a lopsided field that's highly in their favor.
You could also go all Gifts-Rites and whip out Elesh Norn from the grave. Should be quite effective against most token/critter spam strats.