Severed Strands
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica #85 (common)
- Price
- $0.10 USD
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.
Severed Strands has 4 printings, first in Guilds of Ravnica (2018). EDHREC ranks it #13,211 among Commander cards. It appears most in Moseo, Vein's New Dean decks (159 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Severed Strands most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Moseo, Vein's New Dean: 159 decks
- Lucius the Eternal: 129 decks
- Tivash, Gloom Summoner: 124 decks
- The Kingpin of Crime: 58 decks
- Vraan, Executioner Thane: 12 decks
- Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker: 5 decks
- Citizen V, Helmut Zemo: 3 decks
- Sengir, the Dark Baron: 3 decks
Often played with Severed Strands
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the target creature is a legal target but can't be destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you still gain life.
- : 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.
- : The amount of life gained is equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness as it last existed on the battlefield.
- : 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.