Desperate Lunge
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart #188 (common)
- Price
- $0.14 USD
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
Desperate Lunge has 3 printings, first in War of the Spark (2019). EDHREC ranks it #25,267 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged decks (54 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Desperate Lunge most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged: 54 decks
- Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes: 1 decks
Often played with Desperate Lunge
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A creature gaining flying after it has been blocked by a creature without flying or reach won't remove the blocking creature from combat or cause the creature it blocked to become unblocked.
- : If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Desperate Lunge tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't gain 2 life.