Severed Strands
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #GRN-85
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.13 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Zack Stella
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
"I've seen Ravnica's fate. Believe me, I'm doing you a favor."
Rulings
If the target creature is a legal target but can't be destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you still gain life.
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Severed Strands tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't gain life.
The amount of life gained is equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness as it last existed on the battlefield.
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can't cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can't sacrifice additional creatures.
