Burst Lightning
- Mana cost
- {R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive #106 (uncommon)
- Price
- $1.22 USD
Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.)
Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.
Burst Lightning has 11 printings, first in Zendikar (2009). EDHREC ranks it #5,096 among Commander cards. It appears most in Prismari, the Inspiration decks (1,763 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Burst Lightning most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Prismari, the Inspiration: 1,763 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Visionary: 1,250 decks
- Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power: 611 decks
- Hallar, the Firefletcher: 512 decks
- Solphim, Mayhem Dominus: 375 decks
- Aurelia, the Warleader: 348 decks
- Electro, Assaulting Battery: 247 decks
- Massimo, the Magician: 205 decks
Often played with Burst Lightning
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
- : To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- : If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
- : If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
- : If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
- : If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.