Lightning Bolt
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Oldschool 93/94 Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Lightning Bolt

Instant

This deals 3 damage to any target (creature, player, planeswalker or battle).

Icbrgr on Boros Skalds

2 days ago

Mainboard Modern format transfer Suggestions:

maybe cut Showdown of the Skalds for Manamorphose... maybe a 2-2 split?

Foxigami on Infestation of Goblins and Rats

4 days ago

Heyo, i love this deck as i have been brewing around this style of deck for a while. I am specifically trying to make a vampire tribal version of this deck as i found some fun combos and vampires that work well with this strategy. Here are my suggestions

first: if you are gonna kill the tokens off, Blood Artist and Slaughter Specialist are some cards you should think about, they work well and offer other ways for this deck to win.

second: Illness in the Ranks is a good way to remove all the tokens, Toxic Deluge would be helpful as well as it would be another way for you to do a mass board wipe other than.

third: some fun cards you can add i would recommend would be Hunted Bonebrute, and Hunted Horror. they are not the best cards as bonebrute can be easily killed by a Lightning Bolt and hunted horror might give the opponent too much value, but they should be considered as well.

some other fun cards to consider are Massacre Girl, Known Killer and Massacre Wurmfoil. massacre girl just gives you automatic value with draw cards, while massacre wurm can be another wincon. they might be a bit too slow though.

eitherway, great deck. i wish you luck with it!

MollyMab on Pauper Blue Ninjas

6 days ago

OK? Comment still apply, will a casual deck not run Lightning Bolt or Cast Down?

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

1 week ago

Years ago I had an idea for a Cambion Fire Domain Cleric for D&D. Cambion are half-Human, half-Devils.

Her story is noble and heroic, but her birth was tragic and sinister. I don't want to retell it right now.

My friend used AI to generate an image for her, so I made her into a card.

Drana, Fire Domain Cleric

Drana, Fire Domain Cleric

Yes, she's a 4/6 for 3 because other than her actual ability, she's a vanilla creature.

Her activated activated sounds wonderful and all. First time being cast you can literally exile Flame Slash.

Tapping her, without Vigilance, means you lose out on a valuable attacker or blocker but she deals 4 damage to any creature, but you lose 4 life.

Her MV being 3 means she can be recast numerous times per game, getting more and more powerful spells, at higher and higher risk to yourself.

Overall I love her design.

Turn a character you love into a legendary creature or Planeswalker. Can be from any work of fiction, or your own TTRPG character if you have one

thar_b_dragons on Spell Copy Targeting Timing

4 weeks ago

In play, I have Precursor Golem, the two golem tokens it created when it entered, and Amoeboid Changeling. My opponent casts a Lightning Bolt targeting Precursor. I tap Amoeboid Changeling and use its ability to change Precursor's creature type to Elf...were my other Golems already being targeted by bolts due to Precursor's triggered ability, or will this stop that since he isn't a golem anymore?

Thanks!

Sliverguy420 on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …

4 weeks ago

plakjekaas "That's the topic of discussion yes, that's exactly the question that was asked in the original post, with given examples where exactly that is the case, and if there were any rule behind it. It was not magwaaf who said that, it was DemonDragonJ."

i never implied magwaaf said that, and what you quoted just now was entirely different.

i literally did not "deny the entire premise of the post". certainly not to "spite" anyone. i actually AGREED with the post by saying that multicolored cards are in fact usually stronger than monocolored counterparts.

the one derailing and not contributing is in fact you. saying that "af is stronger than rt because of power creep" does not answer why Thought Collapse is stronger than Psychic Strike you derailed, not me. you got off topic, not me.

Shock and Lightning Bolt do not have the same effect. the effects are not equal. i know what an effect is. been playing this game over 20 years, most of those years competitively. 2 is not the same as 3. you are factually, mathematically, and provably wrong. it is not the same effect no matter how you spin it.

you don't even know the definition of ad hominem. i've never once attacked any person here. i've argued against your logic. that is, by definition, not ad hominem.

this whole post is a trivial nitpick anyway because at the end of the day it doesn't matter if sometimes a monocolored card is stronger than a multicolored card with a SIMILAR effect. OP is constantly making these posts every time some minor thing doesn't go his way in this game.

plakjekaas on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …

4 weeks ago

I'll admit I misinterpreted the first mention of Aurelia's Fury. However, Sliverguy420 you have just been correcting and fighting people in this thread. You called me out on my mistake, now let me return the favor:

"i never said magwaaf said anything."

"magwaaf wrong about what exactly? are you saying wotc deliberately did the opposite here, and that monocolored cards are more often stronger than their multicolored counterparts?"

Yes, you "technically" didn't say he said it, but you were asking. I answered you. Then:

"Thought Collapse and Psychic Strike do NOT in fact have the same effect. thats the "whole effing point". one mills 2, the other mills 3. not the same effect."

While the actual question was:

"What does everyone else say, about this? Why are some mono-colored cards more powerful than are multi-colored cards that are very similar?"

You suddenly denied the entire premise of the post just to spite me. That's not contributing, that's derailing. My argument about Aurelia's Fury was that they're not very similar. You start arguing that "very similar" is not exactly the same. That's not gathering or sharing any insight in the discussion at hand. You lose yourself in semantics to feel better about yourself correcting someone online on the Internet. And you dig your heels in the sand when someone else calls you out on it. I thought about making the point of your posts not contributing to the original question in my previous post, but someone beat me to it.

The exact same card with a different name you tried to pass on as the only true meaning of same, which only works for cards, not effects, has its own name. A functional reprint. That's the term to use when discussing cards that are the same, except for the name. They have no place in a discussion about similar cards with different measurements of power, because by definition they're the same in every way, and there is no difference in power.

Effects in Magic are things that happen as the result of a spell or ability. Countering a spell is an effect. Making a player mill cards is an effect. Dealing damage is an effect. Shock and Lightning Bolt both have the same effect, where one of the cards is more powerful than the other. Because they're both monocolored, I've not used the example in this topic. They make my powercreep argument a bit weaker as well. But the thing is: when somebody would claim they're the same card, they would obviously be wrong. But stating: these are not the same card, 2 damage is not 3 damage, you can't compare them, while no lies in the words, is also obviously wrong. Lightning Bolt is said to be "strictly better" than Shock. The same mana cost, card types, same effect, but one with higher numbers.

If Psychic Strike would also cost , we could just say Thought Collapse is strictly better. The discussion would end there, comparison easily handled. Because the mana cost is actually different, you could question if the mana cost causes the difference. That's what OP did, thinking that was the only difference between the cards. Limited environments, rarity and powercreep are all contributing to how strong a card could be, and could explain the mentioned deviation from the expected trend.

Saying similar cards are not exactly the same, does not explain anything about that. Asking if fellow forum user is saying [topic of discussion] is actually the case, does not explain. Denying to derail the discussion after not trying to contribute to the topic and being called out on it, does not help OP's insight to the case. Deflecting that the one you're fighting about it is now also derailing the topic, does not help.

That's what I think it's wrong about your presence in this topic, the ad hominem nature of every post you make, and whenever you're pointed to that, trying to cover it up with more of the same, unwilling to change your own perspective, but expecting us all to join yours. Seems I'm not the only one.

DungeonMimic1993 on help with this deck

1 month ago

I would recommend replacing both Burst Lightning and Lightning Strike with Lightning Bolt as the classic is now and forever will be the best option. I'm not really sure how Loot, Exuberant Explorer fits in aside from being an extra land drop for ramp. If you are looking for ramp Azusa, Lost but Seeking is a much better choice. If you are looking for more token creation then Urabrask's Forge will creat constant and heavy hitting creatures for you. Both Axguard Calvery and Raccoon Rallier don't have the best value as the themselves have summoning sickness and tapping a three mana creature for haste to one creature kind of defeats the point of haste. If you like have has on your creatures Anger is fs the best option but Urabrask the Hidden isn't bad option either. Another thing you could do is supplement them with creatures that straight up have haste printed.

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