Desperate Measures
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) #78 · Uncommon · Instant
Mana cost: {B}
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
"Sing for us when we depart for battle, and sing for us if we fail to return."
—Mardu parting
Illustrated by Gaboleps · Released April 11, 2025
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.23 USD · €0.16 EUR
- Foil: $0.27 USD · €0.21 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: no net change at $0.23 USD; low $0.19 USD, high $0.32 USD.
Printings
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm #78 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2025 · $0.23 USD
Legality
- Standard: Legal
- Alchemy: Legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2025-04-04 · wotc — 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.
- 2025-04-04 · wotc — 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.