Swarmyard Massacre
Swarmyard Massacre: Sorcery, Bloomburrow Commander. Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 20
- Artist
- Michael Phillippi
- Commander rank
- 2,134 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Swarmyard Massacre
Swarmyard Massacre is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Bloomburrow Commander (BLC), a Commander product released in August 2024. It is collector number 20 in that set, with art by Michael Phillippi. It costs {3}{B}{B} (three generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Bloomburrow Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $4.43 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.
"Life and death are a cycle, and it is I who keeps it spinning." -Decai, squirrelfolk rotmaster
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.43 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Swarmyard Massacre by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Swarmyard Massacre
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomburrow Commander (BLC) #55 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Swarmyard Massacre.
- If you control a creature that has more than one of the listed types (for example, Daggerfang Duo, which is a Rat Squirrel), it's only counted once for Swarmyard Massacre.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Swarmyard Massacre is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.