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Swarm Surge

Card Name

Swarm Surge

Mana Cost

2

Type

Sorcery

Rarity

Common

rules Text

Devoid (This card has no color.)Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

Flavor Text

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Standard

Rulings

(8/25/2015)
A colorless creature given first strike by Swarm Surge won't lose first strike if it stops being colorless later in the turn.
(8/25/2015)
Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
(8/25/2015)
A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
(8/25/2015)
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
(8/25/2015)
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
(8/25/2015)
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.