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Saw in Half

Instant

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Marvel Universe
Price
$3.91
EDHREC rank
#596
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Saw in Half card art
Saw in Half doubles any creature on the board — two tokens each with half the original's power and toughness, both keeping every keyword and triggered ability — for two mana at instant speed. The cost is negligible against the payoff: Dualcaster Mage becomes two Dualcaster Mages, Deadpool, Trading Card triggers twice as many times, and the ceiling on any enters-the-battlefield engine roughly doubles the moment you cast it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Deadpool, Trading Card

Deadpool, Trading Card

92.5% of decks · synergy 0.81

Deadpool, Trading Card is the single most common home for Saw in Half because the card is practically designed for him — splitting Deadpool mid-combat or in response to removal triggers his death and return effects, and doing it at instant speed means opponents can't easily play around it.

02
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

77.1% of decks · synergy 0.69

Hazel of the Rootbloom cares about casting and copying spells, so Saw in Half slots in as both a doubling effect and a spell worth copying — splitting a mana dork or a key creature while simultaneously fueling Hazel's counters-and-tokens engine.

03
Hidetsugu and Kairi

Hidetsugu and Kairi

53.2% of decks · synergy 0.50

Hidetsugu and Kairi wants big blue creatures to die and trigger the cascade-style top-of-library effect, and Saw in Half creates two smaller copies that can each die separately, effectively doubling the number of triggers available from a single creature.

04
Cormela, Glamour Thief

Cormela, Glamour Thief

52.4% of decks · synergy 0.47

Cormela, Glamour Thief generates mana when she dies, and Saw in Half turns one death trigger into two by replacing her with a pair of tokens — both die independently, both can produce mana, and the whole thing happens at instant speed for minimal investment.

05
Edea, Possessed Sorceress

Edea, Possessed Sorceress

50.4% of decks · synergy 0.45

Edea, Possessed Sorceress builds around instants and sorceries with powerful recast effects, and Saw in Half is a cheap, splashy spell that produces two bodies from one — exactly the kind of efficient spell-plus-board-impact Edea decks want on their curve.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Saw in Half is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it's a Commander card through and through. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana-total creature-doubling effect when those formats are won on turns one and two with far more efficient tools. Commander is where Saw in Half thrives: the format's singleton rule, long game, and density of enters-the-battlefield triggers make doubling a single creature worth a dedicated card slot. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it sees occasional play, mostly in the same ETB-abuse shells that Commander runs.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.91 cheap tier

At $3.91, Saw in Half sits at the cheap end of the rare spectrum — easy to acquire and broadly playable enough that demand from multiple commanders keeps it from bottoming out. It's not a card you'll regret picking up at this price given how many ETB-heavy commanders want it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.