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like something from unhinged or unglued

This card is ridiculously good, unlike most flip the coin cards either way its a positive. Either you counter the spell or you get a copy of the spell, and if your using it on a counter spell it gets countered either way. The ends side is also amazing, sacrifice bypasses shroud and indestructibility, although it lets your opponent choose what 2 creatures to get rid of.

Can i use this in a U-R EDH deck?

@Tezz

I'm going to go with yeah, but don't quote me.

I like the Boros side. Gets around shroud and indestructibility, and gives card advantage.

@Tezz: No, If a card has any mana symbols on it that aren't any of the commander's colors, then it can't be included in your EDH deck.

For the consideration of split cards in EDH, each card in a split card contributes its colors to the split card's colors as a whole.

@ Qazior:

Instead of copying/countering a Day of Judgment, try copy/countering, say, a Mind Spring. That'll probably work out better for you.

Also, S. T. Colbert EDH loves this card.

USA! USA! USA!

Seems like a rather rude choice for Isochron Scepter

what is the ruling on split cards and imprint, I just read that cascade lets you choose either if any part of the split card is cheaper, but im sure if you imprint a split card you only get 1 not both?

you may use either side, but only one at a time, I use these in my izzet isochron sceptor deck. either extremely defensive or a win win counter spell, you may also like Deliver

Interesting puns - neither side is true to its original meaning as in "odds and ends".

If you search this up with a Sunforger, can you cast either spell or just Odds? Similarly, could you cast Ice if you search up Fire // Ice?

hehe. I WILL ENDS YOU!

"Never tell me the odds!"

I love that half of this card. The other is good, but not as interesting for me when I cast it. I kind of like the chaotic, "what will happen?" coin-flip cards, but this takes away the negative of nothing actually happening, as is the case with most others.

@CrazyLou

Just as with Isochronic Scepter, you may use either Odds or Ends when you cast it, due to one side having the mana cost requirement

I quite like Odds for "coin-flip cards that don't disappoint." You'll be equally happy with the results when targeting an opponent's burn spell or Sorin's Vengeance. Plus, cast on a counterspell, this gets the same results either way - making it a Counterspell (or better) for UR.

Ends is okay... but it's basically a five-mana Wing Shards.

@leomistico: People who say "USA!" at all the RWU cards are just being patriotic, not narrow-minded. They're showing respect and deference for their own great country, not narrow mindedness and contempt for all others. There is nothing wrong with that.

On a better note: Odds and Ends is one of my favorites, if not my favorite, split card. Imprint on Isochron Scepter for some fun. Both of its effects are really nice though, unlike a lot of split cards that favor one side more than the other. The idea of a coin toss coming up in your favor either way in Magic is nearly unheard of, so Odds really does it for me.

4.5/5

That's a pretty clever name, plus it's a good card. I'd give it 5/5.

One day there was this play:

My opponent: Cast Dimir Cutpurse
I: draw-go (I had this and a creature in hand, but I refuse to playt it since I knew what my opponent had in his library)
My opponent: Cast Hellhole Rats, I discarded a land. My opponent attacks with both creature, I cast Ends! Such satisfaction!

Both half has its uses, I like Odds more, since I love Izzet, but Ends is very useful nontheless! The win-win is a great idea, even if doesn't happen alway (against a Day of Judgment wouldn't work), but agains counter it does! I played it in a deck, that used almost only multi-colored cards, and had some Pillar of the Paruns for fixing, so I could play the End part without others mana fixing, even if not always, but pretty often.

5/5

Also, stop b*tching about U.S.A. in every card. As someone else said in a comment from another card, blue-white-red represents so many flags of the world (France, just for an example), that always thinking about U.S.A. reveals your totally blindness for what doesn't concern your country... Yours' not the best country in the world, so please, don't bother...

Edit:
@gman92: Oh, yeah... Because thinking about United States of America everytime they see blue-red-white colors make them so different from a Pavlov's dog...

gman92: The problem with that is that red, white and blue are the national colours of many more countries than just the USA, so it's better to simply not be patriotic on the Gatherer.

Wow, Odds counters countermagic no matter what it lands on. Heads, you counter it outright. Tails, you redirect it to itself and make it whiff. Pretty cool.

Fire and Ice for a new era of broken-ness on Sunforger and on Isochron Scepter.

Now this is coin-flipping players can get behind! You get either Redirect or Reverberate.

@ tezz

Dont think so buddy...gotta have commander colors in both mana costs. Off color hybrids are also a no go, i believe.

Did anyone notice FATTKIDD was being sarcastic? Steven Colbert is a satirical comedian who pokes fun at overly patriotic Americans... But to avoid hurt feelings, why don't we call that color combination "leomistico" instead, since his face turns white, then red, then blue when he hears the word America. (It's a Pavlovian conditioned reflex.)

OK, OK, OK, I should write about the card. Krark's Thumb will make your choice more likely, but the ruling specifically states there is no winning or losing the flip, so Chance Encounter will never get a luck counter.

I wish there were more cards like this that give an interesting good result for each outcome. Too many cards that use coins have a good or a bad outcome, or even worse, a good outcome or nothing. I play because I like to do stuff. I don't want to play a card that has a fifty percent chance of being boring!