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Feed the Swarm
CommonColour IDMV 2
Sorcery
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Card capabilities
Creature removalSorcery
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
Other printings
25 other English printingsEarliest 2020-09-25Newest 2026-09-02Cheapest priced $0.21 in TLE
slz· #162
2026-09-02—
slz· #283
2026-09-02—
slz· #41
2026-09-02—
soa· #29
2026-04-24$0.36
tle· #257
2025-11-21$0.21
mar· #16
2025-09-26$2.30
omb· #16
2025-09-23—
sld· #7001
2025-06-12$5.00
tdc· #180
2025-04-11$0.37
fdn· #712
2024-11-15$0.21
dsc· #78
2024-09-27$0.26
plst· #SCD-77
2024-08-02$0.24
otc· #134
2024-04-19$0.37
lcc· #198
2023-11-17$0.32
who· #812
2023-10-13$13.54
who· #221
2023-10-13$0.35
cmm· #159
2023-08-04$0.31
ltc· #200
2023-06-23$0.36
scd· #77
2022-12-02$0.27
brc· #106
2022-11-18$0.96
clb· #752
2022-06-10$0.45
ncc· #250
2022-04-29$0.55
mic· #117
2021-09-24$0.37
c21· #144
2021-04-23$0.40
znr· #102
2020-09-25$0.33
Rulings (3)
wotc8 Nov 2024
If a permanent on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
wotc8 Nov 2024
If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Feed the Swarm tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't lose any life. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), you do lose life.
wotc8 Nov 2024
The amount of life you lose is determined by the permanent's mana value as it last existed on the battlefield.
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