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Severance Priest

Creature — Djinn ClericWhite manaBlack manaGreen mana

Hand disruption on a creature has always come with an asterisk: kill the body, get the card back. Tidehollow Sculler is the archetypal version, and its exiled card returns the instant the Sculler dies, which turns the whole play into a tempo loan rather than a permanent theft. This design converts the loan into something closer to a trade. The chosen card stays exiled for good; what comes back when the body leaves is an X/X Spirit sized to the exiled card's mana value, handed to the card's owner. So the disruption is genuinely permanent, and the cost of that permanence is that you gift your opponent a blank when the priest dies. Steal a two-drop and they get a modest token; strip a game-ending haymaker and you are handing back a large body in exchange. The more valuable the card you take, the harder you have to weigh whether you can afford to lose the priest, because the payout scales against you: this is disruption that charges interest on its own success. Deathtouch keeps the 3/3 relevant on defense while the exile persists, discouraging opponents from simply swinging through it to trigger the conversion. It is a hand-attack creature that finally makes the "kill it and get it back" line a real decision instead of a formality, since what returns is never the card itself.

Severance Priest (ptdm)
PTDM · #222prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

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.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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