Card
Lightning, Army of One
Mana cost {1}{R}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier 3/2
First strike, trample, lifelink Stagger — Whenever Lightning deals combat damage to a player, until your next turn, if a source would deal damage to that player or a permanent that player controls, it deals double that damage instead.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · FIN · #233
- Cheapest printing
- €8.89
- EDHREC salt
- 0.79
- Color identity
- Red, White
- Keywords
- Lifelink, Stagger, First strike, Trample
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
1 known combo.
- Walking Ballista + Unspeakable Symbol + Lightning, Army of One + Collective Inferno
Produces: Infinite damage, Infinite lifegain, Infinite lifegain triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
The damage is dealt by the same source as the original source of damage. The doubled damage isn't dealt by Lightning unless it was the original source of damage. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If damage dealt by a source you control is being divided or assigned among multiple permanents and/or players, that damage is divided or assigned before doubling. For example, if you attack with a 5/5 creature with trample and it's blocked by a 2/2 creature, you can assign 2 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player. Those amounts are then doubled to 4 and 6, respectively. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If another effect (or effects) modifies how much damage a source you control would deal—by preventing some of it, for example—the player being dealt damage or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage chooses the order in which any such effects (including Lightning's) apply. If all of the damage is prevented, Lightning's effect no longer applies.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast