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"Find me cards equivalent to: Barbed Lightning"

Similar cards to Barbed Lightning (Instant, Red, 3 damage, modal, flexible) include:

  • Lightning Bolt — 3 damage to any target (cheaper, but not modal).
  • Searing Blaze — Deals 1 or 3 damage to creature and player if landfall.
  • Searing Blood — 2 damage to creature, 3 to controller if it dies.
  • Char — 4 damage to any target, deals 2 to you.
  • Burst Lightning — 2 damage instant or 4 damage with kicker.
  • Skewer the Critics — 3 damage to any target (sorcery, but often cheap).
  • Lava Spike — 3 damage to player or planeswalker only.

No exact alternate with entwine, but these have similar flexibility or roles.

Found Cards

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Barbed Lightning

Burst Lightning

Char

Lava Spike

Lightning Bolt

Searing Blaze

Searing Blood

Skewer the Critics

Barbed Lightning #55 Instant

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 3
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Entwine

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    • Prices

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    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.25 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.6 USD 0.12 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.24 EUR 0.1 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Choose one — • Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature. • Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

    Burst Lightning #8 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
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    Kicker

    Rules

  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • 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.
  • 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.

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    Manapool 8.29 USD
    Cardkingdom 12.99 USD
    Cardmarket 4.86 EUR / 2.37 EUR
    Tcgplayer 12.03 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.

    Char #1 Instant

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    Tcgplayer 1.33 USD
    Manapool 0.67 USD
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Cardmarket 1.66 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Char deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

    Lava Spike #136 Sorcery — Arcane

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
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  • Arcane
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    Rules

  • Arcane is a spell subtype that has no inherent rules meaning. It may be referenced by effects from other cards.

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    Tcgplayer / 2.35 USD 0.88 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 0.99 USD
    Manapool / 1.23 USD 0.52 USD
    Cardmarket 0.91 EUR / 1.95 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

    Lightning Bolt #5 aka. Bolt Instant

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    Manapool 20.82 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

    Searing Blaze #5 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • If either target is illegal by the time Searing Blaze resolves, it still deals damage to the other target.
  • You must choose two targets as you cast Searing Blaze: a player and a creature that player controls. If you can't (because there are no creatures on the battlefield, perhaps), then you can't cast the spell.
  • Having more than one land enter the battlefield under your control this turn provides no additional benefit.
  • Once the spell resolves, having a land enter under your control provides no further benefit.
  • The effect of this spell's landfall ability replaces its normal effect. If you had a land enter under your control this turn, only the landfall-based effect happens.
  • The landfall ability checks for an action that has happened in the past. It doesn't matter if a land that entered the battlefield under your control previously in the turn is still on the battlefield, is still under your control, or is still a land.
  • Whether you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn is checked as this spell resolves, not as you cast it.

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    Manapool 4.87 USD
    Cardmarket 4.1 EUR / 7.14 EUR
    Cardkingdom 6.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 4.95 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

    Searing Blood #35 Instant

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • If the target creature dies that turn, Searing Blood will deal 3 damage to whoever controls the creature when it dies, who isn't necessarily the player who controlled it when Searing Blood resolved. It doesn't matter what causes the creature to die.

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    Manapool 0.15 USD / 1.14 USD
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    Cardmarket 0.62 EUR / 1.3 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Searing Blood deals 2 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, Searing Blood deals 3 damage to the creature's controller.

    Skewer the Critics #26 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Spectacle

    Rules

  • A card's spectacle cost is the same no matter how much life your opponents lost or how many opponents lost life.
  • Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life.
  • In a multiplayer game, if an opponent loses life and later that turn leaves the game, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost. (If a player leaves the game during their turn, that turn continues without an active player.)
  • Spectacle cares only that an opponent lost life during the turn, not that the opponent's life total is currently lower than it was. For example, if an opponent loses 1 life and then gains 2 life in the same turn, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost that turn.
  • Spectacle doesn't change when you can cast the spell. For example, you can't cast a sorcery with spectacle during an opponent's turn unless another effect allows you to do so, even if that player has lost life this turn.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a spectacle cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR / 0.17 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.26 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Spectacle (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Skewer the Critics deals 3 damage to any target.