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Isildur's Fateful Strike LTR 0091 · rare

Isildur's Fateful Strike · {2}{B}{B} · Legendary Instant · (You may cast a legendary instant only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Destroy target creature. If its controller has more than four cards in hand, they exile cards from their hand equal to the difference. · Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron's hand with the hilt-shard of his father's sword, and Sauron himself was overthrown.

Isildur's Fateful Strike · {2}{B}{B} · Legendary Instant · (You may cast a legendary instant only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Destroy target creature. If its controller has more than four cards in hand, they exile cards from their hand equal to the difference. · Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron's hand with the hilt-shard of his father's sword, and Sauron himself was overthrown.

Price
from $0.275 printings
Win rate
53.6% GIH 10,160 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 5,443 wins in 10,160 card-in-hand instances.

9,993 distinct games · 3,852 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023.

17Lands file dated Aug 30, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

53.6%when drawn (GIH)

−2.0 pp vs 55.6% average · 10,160 instances

Premier Draft · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · average from 980,485 games

#181 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.7 on average (18,787 packs).

36 of 38 black cards · 6 of 6 black rare cards.

Taken at pick3.05,256 picks
Makes the deck72.1%5,256 picks with known usage
When played53.7%19,430.1 matchesBenched 54.0%
5,948.9 matches
When drawn53.6%10,160 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 50.6% · 3,741 instances
● Drawn later 55.3% · 6,419 instances

In hand 53.6% · 10,160 instances
Unseen in deck 53.3% · 13,582 instances
+0.3 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn53.6%10,160 instances36 of 38
Opening hand50.6%3,741 instances37 of 38
Drawn later55.3%6,419 instances33 of 38
In the deck53.4%23,735 instances36 of 38
Without seeing it53.3%13,582 instances35 of 38
Improvement when drawn+0.3 pp10,160 instances / 13,582 instances32 of 38
When benched54.0%5,948.9 matches36 of 38
Makes the deck72.1%5,256 picks with known usage22 of 38
Pick (last seen)2.718,787 packs15 of 38
Taken at3.05,256 picks15 of 38

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

White–Black WB57.5%1,557 instancesBlue–Black UB55.5%1,940 instancesBlack–Green BG53.8%608 instancesBlack–Red BR53.7%2,464 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.6% · 10,160 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Dunland Crebain11,234 games with both in the deckUruk-hai Berserker11,024 games with both in the deckMordor Muster10,517 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 28% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023

Collect

5 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LTR 0091 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set · jumpstart · jumpstart-v2$0.27
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.47

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 1,715 packs (0.06%) · 2.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 86 packs (1.17%) · 34.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 645 packs (0.15%) · 4.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 59 packs (1.68%) · 39.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 15.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 35 packs (2.86%) · 40.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart-v2 · Modeled · About 1 in 38 packs (2.67%) · 38.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommon or foil33%Main set and booster-fun foils
Draft BoosterRare or mythic rareRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedDraft and Set Booster rare printings
Set BoosterTen other Magic cards100%Other Draft and Set Booster printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed rare or mythicRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedDraft and Set Booster rare printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed traditional foil100%Main set and booster-fun foils
Collector BoosterFoil main-set rare or mythic85.7%Main set · rare

Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR ↗ · Sep 22, 2023

Details & sources

Legal in
Historic · Timeless · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
John Di Giovanni, LTR 91 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR · Sep 22, 2023
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗