Card
Lightning Storm
Mana cost {1}{R}{R}
Lightning Storm deals X damage to any target, where X is 3 plus the number of charge counters on Lightning Storm. Discard a land card: Put two charge counters on Lightning Storm. You may choose a new target for it. Any player may activate this ability but only if Lightning Storm is on the stack.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 32 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · CSP · #89
- Cheapest printing
- €0.38
- EDHREC salt
- 0.33
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
32 known combos.
- Lightning Storm + Stormchaser Drake + Wheel of Sun and Moon + Abundance + Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite damage to one opponent
View on Commander Spellbook - Lightning Storm + Stormchaser Drake + Wheel of Sun and Moon + Abundance + Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite damage to one opponent
View on Commander Spellbook - Lightning Storm + Stormchaser Drake + Wheel of Sun and Moon + Abundance + Clever Impersonator
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite damage to one opponent
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
When you cast Lightning Storm, you immediately have a chance to activate its ability since you’ll have priority. If you don’t, and all other players pass, the spell will resolve. You won’t receive priority again — and thus won’t get another chance to activate its ability — unless someone else activates Lightning Storm’s activated ability, casts some other spell, or activates some other ability. - 2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
After an instance of Lightning Storm’s activated ability resolves, the active player (not Lightning Storm’s controller) receives priority. - 2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
When Lightning Storm leaves the stack, its charge counters go away. - 2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Lightning Storm has an activated ability that can be activated only while the spell is on the stack. Any player may activate that ability. When the ability is activated, it goes on the stack on top of Lightning Storm. When the ability resolves, the Lightning Storm spell is affected. - 2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
When Lightning Storm’s activated ability resolves, if there are no other legal targets to choose for the Lightning Storm spell, you must leave the target the same, even if it’s now an illegal target.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast