Severed Legion
Creature — Zombie
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25726
Severed Legion is a 2/2 for three mana with swampwalk and fear — evasive in theory, irrelevant in practice. Against any opponent not running Swamps, it's a vanilla 2/2 for three, and that's not a card that earns a slot in any powered environment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Severed Legion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality isn't the same as playability. In Commander, the swampwalk only punishes black-heavy opponents, and fear is blanked entirely by artifact creatures and black creatures — common enough in the format to make this unreliable. In Pauper it faces a field of efficient commons that do far more for the same or less mana. In Legacy and Vintage, three mana for a 2/2 with conditional evasion isn't a sentence worth finishing.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Severed Legion is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely leaves it. There's no competitive demand or casual spike on the horizon to move the needle.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.