Savage Swipe
- Mana cost
- {G}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #630 (common)
Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn if its power is 2. Then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Savage Swipe has 2 printings, first in Modern Horizons (2019). EDHREC ranks it #17,020 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ayula, Queen Among Bears decks (928 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Savage Swipe most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears: 928 decks
- Sergeant John Benton: 577 decks
- Beorn the Fierce: 356 decks
- Neyith of the Dire Hunt: 120 decks
- Strong, the Brutish Thespian: 111 decks
- Rhonas the Indomitable: 45 decks
- Syr Faren, the Hengehammer: 11 decks
- Wilson, Refined Grizzly: 8 decks
Often played with Savage Swipe
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The target creature you control gets +2/+2 only if its power is exactly 2 as Savage Swipe resolves. It’ll still fight if it doesn’t get +2/+2.
- : You can’t cast Savage Swipe unless you choose both a creature you control and a creature you don’t control as targets.
- : If the creature you control is an illegal target as Savage Swipe tries to resolve, no creature gets +2/+2. If that creature is a legal target but the creature you don’t control isn’t, it still gets +2/+2 until end of turn if its power is 2.
- : If either target is an illegal target as Savage Swipe tries to resolve, neither creature will deal or be dealt damage.