Tersa Lightshatter
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Orc Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 3
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm #345 (rare)
- Price
- $1.05 USD
Haste
When Tersa Lightshatter enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.
Whenever Tersa Lightshatter attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, exile a card at random from your graveyard. You may play that card this turn.
Tersa Lightshatter has 4 printings, first in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025). EDHREC ranks it #6,110 among Commander cards. It appears most in Quintorius, History Chaser decks (2,804 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Tersa Lightshatter most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Quintorius, History Chaser: 2,804 decks
- Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied: 1,363 decks
- Captain Howler, Sea Scourge: 1,234 decks
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno: 977 decks
- Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire: 774 decks
- Gandalf, Party Guest: 433 decks
- Inti, Seneschal of the Sun: 337 decks
- Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate: 314 decks
Often played with Tersa Lightshatter
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Tersa Lightshatter’s last ability checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard. If you don’t, the ability won’t trigger at all. If it does trigger, the ability will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don’t have seven or more cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- : 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.