Card
Lightning, Security Sergeant
Mana cost {2}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier 2/3
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever Lightning deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as you control Lightning.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIN · #462
- Cheapest printing
- €0.57
- EDHREC salt
- 0.16
- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- Menace
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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If another player gains control of Lightning, you won't be able to play any of the exiled cards, even if you later regain control of Lightning. Similarly, if Lightning leaves the battlefield and later returns, you won't be able to play the cards that were exiled the first time it was on the battlefield since it's a new object. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
You pay all costs and follow all timing rules for cards played this way. For example, if the exiled card is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty and only if you have an available land play remaining.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast