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"Find me cards equivalent to: Barbed Lightning"

Cards equivalent to Barbed Lightning (red, instant, 3 damage split or modal):
1. Char – Instant, deals 4 damage to any target, but deals 2 to you.
2. Searing Blaze – Instant, deals 1 damage to creature and 1 to player (landfall for 3 each).
3. Lightning Strike – Instant, 3 damage to any target.
4. Searing Spear – Instant, 3 damage to any target.
5. Skewer the Critics – Sorcery (so not instant), but deals 3 for cheap.


Reason: These all deal 3 (or more) damage and are red instants. Barbed Lightning is unique with modal/entwine, but these are functionally close.

Found Cards

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Barbed Lightning

Char

Lightning Strike

Searing Blaze

Searing Spear

Skewer the Critics

Barbed Lightning #55 Instant

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 3
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Entwine

    Rules

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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.15 USD / 0.52 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.21 EUR 0.05 EUR
    Manapool / 0.25 USD 0.15 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.)

    Char #1 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Manapool 0.62 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.33 USD
    Cardmarket 1.35 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.

    Lightning Strike #146 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.18 USD / 0.32 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.15 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

    Text

    Lightning Strike 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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    Cardmarket 4.08 EUR / 7.14 EUR
    Cardkingdom 5.99 USD
    Manapool 4.43 USD
    Tcgplayer 4.82 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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    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 Spear #1 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Manapool 0.22 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.48 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Cardmarket 0.59 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 Spear deals 3 damage to any target.

    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 / 0.49 USD 0.39 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.18 USD / 0.21 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR / 0.21 EUR
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.