Severed Strands is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official 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.
How it works : Severed Strands
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The amount of life gained is equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness as it last existed on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the target creature is a legal target but can't be destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you still gain life.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Outrider en-Kor + Task Force + Severed Strands
- 1Activate Outrider en-Kor by paying
, targeting Task Force. - 2Task Force triggers, giving itself +0/+3 until end of turn.
- 3Resolve Outrider en-Kor's ability, causing the next one damage dealt to Outrider en-Kor this turn to be dealt to Task Force instead.
- 4Repeat an arbitrarily large number of times.
- 5Cast Severed Strands by paying
and sacrificing Task Force, causing you to gain life equal to Task Force's toughness and destroy target creature an opponent controls.
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