Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Desperate Gambit

R · 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.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Searing Blaze RRInstant Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.
Rift Elemental RCreature — Elemental {1}{R}, Remove a time counter from a permanent you control or suspended card you own: Rift Elemental gets +2/+0 until end of turn. 1/1
Gargoyle Sentinel 3Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Defender (This creature can't attack.) {3}: Until end of turn, Gargoyle Sentinel loses defender and gains flying. 3/3
Obscuring Haze 2GInstant If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.
The Western Cloud Plane — Gobakhan Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures and planeswalkers you control. Whenever chaos ensues, create three tapped Treasure tokens. They each deal 1 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.
Wine of Blood and Iron 3Artifact {4}: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. Sacrifice Wine of Blood and Iron at the beginning of the next end step.
Cabal Ritual 1BInstant Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.
Dennick, Pious Apparition Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier Flying Whenever one or more creature cards are put into graveyards from anywhere, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") If Dennick, Pious Apparition would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. 3/2
Arcbound Javelineer WArtifact Creature — Soldier {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from Arcbound Javelineer: It deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Modular 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.) 0/1
Void Maw 4BBCreature — Horror Trample If another creature would die, exile it instead. Put a card exiled with Void Maw into its owner's graveyard: Void Maw gets +2/+2 until end of turn. 4/5
Page 197