Crooked Scales
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Mercadian Masques #291 (rare)
- Price
- $1.62 USD
{4}, {T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy target creature an opponent controls. If you lose the flip, destroy target creature you control unless you pay {3} and repeat this process.
Crooked Scales has 2 printings, first in Mercadian Masques (1999). EDHREC ranks it #14,816 among Commander cards. It appears most in Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom decks (3,632 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Crooked Scales
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose - Secret Lair Drop, led by Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
Commanders that run Crooked Scales most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom: 3,632 decks
- Yusri, Fortune's Flame: 1,117 decks
- Edgar, King of Figaro: 40 decks
- Krark, the Thumbless: 26 decks
- Chira, All In: 21 decks
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos: 8 decks
- Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom: 3 decks
Often played with Crooked Scales
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you pay the {3}, you do not choose a new pair of targets when it repeats. This means that if you lose the flip, you have the choice of having your creature destroyed or paying {3} to try again to win the flip. If you lose again, you get the same choice, and so on. You can keep trying to destroy your opponent’s creature as long as you have mana to pay.
- : You choose both targets on activation, so you can only activate this when you can legally choose both targets.