Card
Saw in Half
Mana cost {2}{B}
Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.
Part of 216 known combos, 3 of them two-card. 8 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · BLC · #113
- Cheapest printing
- €4.49
- EDHREC salt
- 0.59
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Dualcaster Mage, Bladewing the Risen, Naru Meha, Master Wizard
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Dualcaster Mage, Bladewing the Risen, Naru Meha, Master Wizard
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Dualcaster Mage
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Dualcaster Mage, Bladewing the Risen, Naru Meha, Master Wizard (early with Dualcaster Mage)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
216 known combos, 3 of them two-card.
- Dualcaster Mage + Saw in Half
Produces: Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Saw in Half + Burnt Offering + Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Saw in Half + Culling the Weak + Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Use the power and toughness of the creature from when it was last on the battlefield to determine the power and toughness of the tokens. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If the creature isn't destroyed (perhaps because it has indestructible), its controller doesn't create any tokens. The same is true if the creature is destroyed but instead of going to its owner's graveyard, a replacement effect moves it elsewhere, such as exile. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature was copying something else, then the tokens enter the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exceptions. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Except for power and toughness, the tokens copy exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature was copying something else or it's a token; see below). They don't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, and so on. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature was a token, the new tokens copy the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token, with the listed exceptions. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If the original creature had a characteristic-defining ability that determined its power and/or toughness, that ability is not copied. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the tokens enter the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the copied creature will also work.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast