Printings
Severed Strands
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 488
Oracle 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 Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 5, 2018
If the target creature is a legal target but can't be destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you still gain life.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
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.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
The amount of life gained is equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness as it last existed on the battlefield.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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