Desperate Gambit {R}
Instant
Choose a source you control and flip a coin. If you win the flip, the next time that source would deal damage this turn, it deals double that damage instead. If you lose the flip, the next time it would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.
Details
- Artist: Pete Venters
- Collector Number: 96
- Available only as nonfoil
- Rarity: uncommon
- Released: 1997-06-09
- Set: Weatherlight
Legalities
- legal Commander
- legal Duel Commander
- legal Legacy
- legal MTGO Commander
- legal Mirage Block
- legal Premodern
- legal Vintage
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 The coin is flipped during resolution of this spell, so you know in advance what will happen when the source deals damage the next time.
- 2008-04-01 The chosen source may be a permanent, a spell on the stack, or anything referred to by something on the stack (such as a Prodigal Pyromancer that's left the battlefield while its ability is still on the stack)
Links
Printings
- Weatherlight (uncommon)
Foreign names
- Verzweifelter Schachzug
- Gambit désespéré
- Mossa Disperata
- 一か八か
- Lance Desesperado
- Gambito desesperado