Swarm Surge
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar #100 (common)
- Price
- $0.07 USD
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.
Swarm Surge has 1 printing, first in Battle for Zendikar (2015). EDHREC ranks it #25,154 among Commander cards. It appears most in Vela the Night-Clad decks (73 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Swarm Surge most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Vela the Night-Clad: 73 decks
- Roshan, Hidden Magister: 13 decks
Often played with Swarm Surge
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : A colorless creature given first strike by Swarm Surge won’t lose first strike if it stops being colorless later in the turn.
- : Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
- : 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.
- : A card with devoid is just colorless. It’s not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
- : 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.