Desperate Gambit
Instant
Mana cost: {R}
How we read this card
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.
on-cast —
- makes flip a coin
on-cast — doubles the damage
- makes something is doubled
on-cast —
- makes damage is prevented
Causes: flip a coin, something is doubled, damage is prevented.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a coin is flipped — 65 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Gambit is one).
- Breeches, the Blastmaker — When Desperate Gambit flips a coin, Breeches, the Blastmaker copies a spell
damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Gambit is one).
When Desperate Gambit has damage prevented:
- Phyrexian Vindicator — deals that much damage
- Selfless Squire — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
- New Way Forward — deals that much damage
- Samite Ministration — gains you that much life
- Judgment of Alexander — deals its power damage
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Gambit is one).
When Desperate Gambit is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Gambit is one).
When Desperate Gambit is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.