Swarm Surge
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Battle for ZendikarBFZ · #100
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.12 € · ★ 0.11 € · 0.06 $ · ★ 0.28 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Devoid (This card has no color.) Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Svetlin Velinov
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2015-10-02
Flavour text
The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.
Rulings
A card with devoid is just colorless. It’s not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
A colorless creature given first strike by Swarm Surge won’t lose first strike if it stops being colorless later in the turn.
Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object’s color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it’s just the new color, not that color and colorless.