Desperate Measures
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm #78 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
Desperate Measures has 1 printing, first in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025). EDHREC ranks it #11,615 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zurgo, Thunder's Decree decks (826 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Desperate Measures most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zurgo, Thunder's Decree: 826 decks
- Lagomos, Hand of Hatred: 72 decks
- Vraan, Executioner Thane: 11 decks
- The Sackville-Bagginses: 5 decks
- Madame Masque: 3 decks
- Shredder, Unrelenting: 2 decks
- General Chang, Cold Warrior: 2 decks
- Burakos, Party Leader: 1 decks
Often played with Desperate Measures
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : As long as you control it, you will get to draw two cards when the target creature goes to the graveyard, regardless of whether it died due to having 0 toughness or something else.
- : If the creature is no longer a creature at the time it goes to the graveyard, you will still draw two cards if you controlled it at that time.