Oracle

Sorcery 

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Destroy target creature an opponent controls.

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Legal in: Vintage, Legacy, Modern, Commander

Officiele rulings

10/5/2018
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures.

10/5/2018
The amount of life gained is equal to the sacrificed creature’s toughness as it last existed on the battlefield.

10/5/2018
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Severed Strands tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You don’t gain life.

10/5/2018
If the target creature is a legal target but can’t be destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you still gain life.

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