Card text
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
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Mana cost
{B}
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Card text
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Desperate Measures
Desperate Measures (78) is a Black Instant from Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM). It costs {B} and has mana value 1. It is printed at Uncommon rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm is a main expansion, released April 2025.
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
Card details
- Card number
- 78
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 11 April 2025
- Rarity
- Uncommon (U)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Desperate Measures
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