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Desperate Ravings

Desperate Ravings Price

5 printings · 5 sets · first printed 2011

Cheapest $0.05
Median $0.14
Highest $0.23
EDHREC Rank #15,960

Desperate Ravings has been printed 5 times across 5 sets, first in 2011 and most recently in 2019. Right now the cheapest printing is Commander 2015 #149 at $0.05, while the most expensive is Commander 2019 #137 at $0.23 — about 5× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $0.14. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 5x, including dedicated reprint sets like The List, Commander 2019.

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Every Desperate Ravings Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Commander 2015 #149 (U) Cheapest 2015 $0.05 —
Innistrad #139 (U) 2011 $0.08 —
The List #C15-149 (U) 2019 $0.14 —
Eternal Masters #125 (C) 2016 $0.19 —
Commander 2019 #137 (U) 2019 $0.23 —

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Instant
Draw two cards, then discard a card at random.

Flashback 2U (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legal In
Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Pauper Penny Dreadful

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 5 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

7 Precedents

You draw two cards and discard one randomly all while Desperate Ravings is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."