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"Find me cards equivalent to: Chain Lightning"

Equivalent cards to Chain Lightning (type: Sorcery, color: R, deal 3 damage) include:

  • Lightning Bolt — Deals 3 damage to any target (Instant, more flexible).
  • Lava Spike — Deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker (Sorcery).
  • Rift Bolt — Deals 3 damage to any target (Suspend, Sorcery).
  • Skewer the Critics — Deals 3 damage to any target (Spectacle, Sorcery).
  • Play with Fire — Deals 2 damage (closest single red instant).


Reason: All match in color and effect (direct damage). None exactly copy the unique copy mechanic of Chain Lightning, but they deliver similar damage as red sorceries.

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Chain Lightning

Lava Spike

Lightning Bolt

Play with Fire

Rift Bolt

Skewer the Critics

Chain Lightning #12 Sorcery

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • As Chain Lightning resolves, either the original or one of the copies, the targeted player or the controller of the targeted permanent may copy it. The copy has the same text, target, and color as the resolving spell, though the player creating the copy may choose a new target for it. Once that copy is created (or not), the Chain Lightning finishes resolving and leaves the stack.
  • If the targeted player or permanent is an illegal target as Chain Lightning tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve and none of its effects happen. It can't be copied.
  • The copy of Chain Lightning is created on the stack, so it's not cast. Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger. Players may respond to that spell before it resolves.
  • The player putting the copy of the spell on the stack controls that copy.

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

    Text

    Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay . If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

    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 / 2.25 USD 0.92 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 1.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.86 EUR / 1.95 EUR
    Manapool 0.71 USD / 1.23 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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    Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

    Lightning Bolt #5 aka. Bolt Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Manapool 10.4 USD / 41.68 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

    Play with Fire #154 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

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    Tcgplayer / 4.22 USD 0.61 USD
    Manapool / 4.39 USD 0.52 USD
    Cardkingdom 9.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 3.61 EUR 0.57 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Play with Fire deals 2 damage to any target. If a player is dealt damage this way, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

    Rift Bolt #2055 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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    Suspend

    Rules

  • Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.
  • Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.
  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.
  • If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.
  • If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.
  • Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.
  • The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.
  • When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.
  • You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

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    Manapool 3.59 USD
    Cardkingdom 7.49 USD
    Cardmarket 9.03 EUR
    Tcgplayer 4.89 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to any target. Suspend 1— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with a timecounteron it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a timecounter When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

    Skewer the Critics #26 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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    Abilities/Keywords

    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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    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom / 0.79 USD 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.16 EUR 0.11 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.26 USD 0.14 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.