Desperate Gambit
- Mana cost
- {R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Weatherlight #96 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.60 USD
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.
Desperate Gambit has 1 printing, first in Weatherlight (1997). EDHREC ranks it #12,095 among Commander cards. It appears most in Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom decks (4,109 on EDHREC). 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
Commanders that run Desperate Gambit most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom: 4,109 decks
- Yusri, Fortune's Flame: 2,082 decks
- Setzer, Wandering Gambler: 365 decks
- Heartless Hidetsugu: 194 decks
- Chira, All In: 157 decks
- Krark, the Thumbless: 56 decks
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos: 14 decks
- Quicksilver, Brash Blur: 6 decks
Often played with Desperate Gambit
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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)