Barbed Lightning

Instant

Choose one - Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature; or Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target player.

Entwine (2) (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

XxDreMisterxX on The odd wizard deck

5 years ago

Good Burn Cards:

Hungry Flames / Barbed Lightning / Incinerate Skullcrack / Volt Charge +combo's with Pyromancer Ascension / Incendiary Command / Insult / Injury / Quenchable Fire / Riddle of Lightning / Sudden Shock

Gidgetimer on Arjun tricks

7 years ago

For ease of conversation let's name some spells and I'll run through what happens in the two options of putting the triggers on the stack. You have Arc Lightning, Barbed Lightning, and Lava Spike exiled with it.

Scenario one Eye of the Storm resolves first:

• You cast Lightning Bolt.

• You stack the triggers Possibility Storm on the bottom with Eye of the Storm above it.

• The Eye of the Storm trigger resolves exiling Lightning Bolt and making copies of Lightning Bolt, Arc Lightning, Barbed Lightning, and Lava Spike. You can cast any number of these copies without paying their mana cost.

• The copies from Eye of the Storm resolve in FILO order that you put them on the stack.

• The Possibility Storm trigger resolves. There is nothing to exile, but it doesn't matter and cards are exiled and Blazing Salvo is the first instant you come to.

• You get the chance to cast Blazing Salvo, triggering Eye of the Storm again if you do. The trigger waits until Possibility Storm's effect is done resolving to be put on the stack.

• The cards exiled with Possibility Storm are put on the bottom of your library.

• Eye of the Storm exiles Blazing Salvo and makes copies of Blazing Salvo, Lightning Bolt, Arc Lightning, Barbed Lightning, and Lava Spike. You can cast any number of these copies without paying their mana cost.

Scenario two Possibility Storm resolves first:

• You cast Lightning Bolt.

• You stack the triggers Eye of the Storm on the bottom with Possibility Storm above it.

• The Possibility Storm trigger resolves exiling Lightning Bolt and cards from the top of your library until Blazing Salvo is revealed.

• You get the chance to cast Blazing Salvo, triggering Eye of the Storm again if you do. The trigger waits until Possibility Storm's effect is done resolving to be put on the stack.

• The cards exiled with Possibility Storm, including Lightning Bolt, are put on the bottom of your library.

• Eye of the Storm exiles Blazing Salvo and makes copies of Blazing Salvo, Arc Lightning, Barbed Lightning, and Lava Spike. You can cast any number of these copies without paying their mana cost.

• The copies from Eye of the Storm resolve in FILO order that you put them on the stack.

• The original Eye of the Storm trigger resolves. There is nothing to exile so it just makes copies of Blazing Salvo, Arc Lightning, Barbed Lightning, and Lava Spike. You can cast any number of these copies without paying their mana cost.

There is a definite choice I would make, but both of them are legal in the rules of the game.

CaptSillva on

7 years ago

Here are some strong and flavorful options for your deck. Hostility, Inferno Titan, Bogardan Hellkite, and Blasphemous Act are just good cards. Pyromancer's Goggles, Pyromancer's Gauntlet, and Inferno however are very flavorful for your commander. The goggles actually belonged to her and Inferno is her last ability.

There also seems to be a theme with dividing damage I find it kind of fun so Pyromancer's Swath could be good with this theme though risky. You would need some way of countering its negative effect. Anyway here are some good split damage spells. Arc Lightning, Avacyn's Judgment, Impact Resonance, Violent Eruption, Barbed Lightning, Cone of Flame, Searing Blood, and Searing Blaze.

I can see a lot of good options for making cuts if you want help with that.

Epochalyptik on A few Spellskite examples..

8 years ago

As I said, spells like Electrolyze and Lightning Bolt do not lock you in to [targeting creatures] or [targeting players].

Compare those spells to Barbed Lightning cast without entwine. If you cast Barbed Lightning choosing only the second mode (3 damage to target player), Spellskite's ability can't change the target to Spellskite because it doesn't allow you to choose a new mode for Barbed Lightning.