Severance Priest
Creature — Djinn Cleric
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X white Spirit creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #23499
Severance Priest enters the battlefield and immediately exiles all cards with the same name from every graveyard — free, no activation cost, no hoops. At two mana for a 2/1 with flash, it's a staple answer to graveyard recursion that also happens to leave a body behind.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Severance Priest punches well above its cost: flash lets you drop it at instant speed the moment a Muldrotha or Karador trigger goes on the stack, and the exile effect hitting all graveyards at once covers the table rather than a single target. It won't replace a Tormod's Crypt if you need broad hate, but as a creature-based slot that doubles as a blocker, it earns its place. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, Severance Priest trades generality for precision — it answers one card name at a time, which is narrow against combo decks running multiple graveyard lines. Standard may see it as niche sideboard tech against whatever recursion engine is dominant at a given time, but the flash timing is genuinely strong across all sixty-card formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Severance Priest is deep bulk — easy to acquire as a four-of without any budget pressure. Bulk creatures with narrow utility rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap tool to keep in your collection rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.