---
name: "Sever the Bloodline"
mana_cost: "{3}{B}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Flashback"]
set: "INR"
set_name: "Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "130"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Clint Cearley"
oracle_id: "b9019332-2f02-48d9-be0a-a2b41b79e136"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/sever-the-bloodline-inr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Sever the Bloodline
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{B}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Flashback

## Oracle Text
Exile target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature.
Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Legion's End](/printing/legions-end-m20.md) — Sorcery
2. [Eradicate](/printing/eradicate-bok.md) — Sorcery
3. [Declaration in Stone](/printing/declaration-in-stone-ncc.md) — Sorcery
4. [Kindred Dominance](/printing/kindred-dominance-msc.md) — Sorcery
5. [Maelstrom Pulse](/printing/maelstrom-pulse-inr.md) — Sorcery
6. [Infinite Obliteration](/printing/infinite-obliteration-ori.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad Remastered (INR) #130
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Clint Cearley

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2017-03-14)* A double-faced creature only has the name of the face that's up. For example, if Village Ironsmith is targeted by Sever the Bloodline, Ironfang wouldn't be exiled.
- *(2017-03-14)* Only creatures on the battlefield will be exiled. In other zones, they're "creature cards," not "creatures."
- *(2017-03-14)* If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Sever the Bloodline resolves, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No creatures will be exiled.
- *(2021-03-19)* To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- *(2021-03-19)* If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- *(2021-03-19)* You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.