Commissar Severina Raine
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Leading from the Front — Whenever Commissar Severina Raine attacks, each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.
Summary Execution — 
, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 2 life and draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3331
Commissar Severina Raine puts a drain-and-draw engine on a four-mana body — every token that dies pings each opponent and replaces itself with a card, which means a single board wipe can swing the game before anyone recovers. The catch is that the payoff is spread across the table rather than concentrated, so she rewards go-wide strategies that already plan to sacrifice creatures in bulk; plug her into anything else and she underperforms. Marneus Calgar already draws from tokens entering; Raine draws from them leaving — together they cover the full life cycle of a board state.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Marneus Calgar
Marneus Calgar draws when tokens enter; Commissar Severina Raine draws when they die, so the two cover the entire token life cycle and stack into a self-sustaining card engine that opponents need to answer immediately.
Isshin, Two Heavens as One
Isshin, Two Heavens as One doubles attack triggers, and Commissar Severina Raine's damage ping fires on each opponent — doubling those drains turns a wide attack step into a serious clock even before combat damage resolves.
Inquisitor Greyfax
Inquisitor Greyfax leans on vigilance and massed humans, and Commissar Severina Raine's drain trigger rewards trading creatures in combat or sacrificing them politically, slotting cleanly into the deck's attrition-and-tempo game plan.
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
Caesar, Legion's Emperor generates tokens on attack and benefits from sacrificing them; Commissar Severina Raine converts those sacrificed tokens into life loss and card draw, turning Caesar's token churn into a repeatable value engine.
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness scales on non-token creature deaths across all players, and Commissar Severina Raine ensures your own token deaths contribute drain and refuel your hand — the two punish any creature-heavy board state from multiple angles.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is by far the most relevant home for Commissar Severina Raine — the format's multiplayer structure means each token death pings three opponents simultaneously, tripling the drain output and making the math favorable fast. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; four mana for a 3/3 with no immediate board impact doesn't compete in formats that end games on turn two or three. Oathbreaker is legal and worth noting for token-sacrifice builds where the tighter game length still lets her trigger repeatedly before the game ends.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Commissar Severina Raine isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. As a four-mana mythic from a specialty crossover release with high inclusion rates in popular token commanders, expect a price floor well above bulk — these cards rarely stay cheap when demand is spread across multiple high-volume decks.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.