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Desperate Gambit - Instant

Weatherlight · 1997

Market Prices

$0.58median

Priced for the Weatherlight printing — select another in “Printings & Editions” below to re-price.

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Legality

PremodernLEGAL
Full Scryfall Data
Weatherlight{R}

Desperate Gambit

Instant

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.

Printings & Editions

Premodern-legal editions of Desperate Gambit — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.

Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.

Critical 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."

— 2004-10-04

"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)"

— 2008-04-01

Price History

91d · USD
$0.58▲ 13.7%

Tracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.

$0.61$0.56$0.51
03/1804/1705/1806/18

Decks playing Desperate Gambit (0)

No mainboard decks match.