Fateful Showdown
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered #123 (rare)
Fateful Showdown deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand. Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.
Fateful Showdown has 3 printings, first in Kaladesh (2016). EDHREC ranks it #8,909 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell decks (2,274 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Fateful Showdown most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell: 2,274 decks
- The Locust God: 1,839 decks
- Captain Howler, Sea Scourge: 1,374 decks
- Rielle, the Everwise: 1,219 decks
- Arjun, the Shifting Flame: 265 decks
- Ivora, Insatiable Heir: 162 decks
- Nin, the Pain Artist: 152 decks
- Astonishing Spider-Man: 148 decks
Often played with Fateful Showdown
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If Fateful Showdown's target becomes an illegal target, you won't discard your hand or draw any cards.
- : The number of cards in your hand is counted only as Fateful Showdown resolves. Fateful Showdown is on the stack at this time, so it's not counted.
- : There are many important moments in the story, but the most crucial—called “story spotlights”—are shown on cards. These cards have the Planeswalker symbol in their text box; this symbol has no effect on gameplay. You can read more about these events in the official Magic fiction at http://www.mtgstory.com.