Desperate Measures
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Tarkir: DragonstormTDM · #78
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · ★ 0.20 € · 0.21 $ · ★ 0.26 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Gaboleps
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2025-04-11
Flavour text
"Sing for us when we depart for battle, and sing for us if we fail to return." —Mardu parting
Rulings
As long as you control it, you will get to draw two cards when the target creature goes to the graveyard, regardless of whether it died due to having 0 toughness or something else.
If the creature is no longer a creature at the time it goes to the graveyard, you will still draw two cards if you controlled it at that time.