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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Lightning Axe

Equivalent cards to Lightning Axe (red instant, discard a card as an additional cost, deals damage) include:

  • Fury Charm (not a direct equivalent, but instant red utility)
  • Wild Slash (red instant, deals 2 damage)
  • Skewer the Critics (red, can be cast cheaply, deals 3 damage)
  • Fiery Temper (red, deals 3 damage, madness cost)


Reason: True equivalents are rare. Lightning Axe is unique for its high damage with a discard cost, but these alternatives are close in function or efficiency.

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Fiery Temper #154 Instant

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    Madness

    Rules

  • A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
  • A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.
  • Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.
  • Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.
  • If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.
  • If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
  • If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
  • Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

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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

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    Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target. Madness (If youdiscardthis card,discardit into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

    Fury Charm #130 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Rules

  • If a permanent or suspended card has only one time counter on it, Fury Charm's last mode removes that one counter.

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    Tcgplayer 0.16 USD / 0.26 USD
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 0.32 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.23 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Choose one — •Destroytarget artifact. • Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. • Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card.

    Lightning Axe #168 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • The mana value of Lightning Axe is 1, no matter which additional cost you paid.

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    Tcgplayer 0.36 USD / 7.05 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR / 4.76 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.41 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    As an additional cost to cast this spell,discarda card or pay . Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.

    Skewer the Critics #26 Sorcery

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    Spectacle

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  • 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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.09 USD / 0.16 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR / 0.16 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.1 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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.

    Wild Slash #8 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • If you control a creature with power 4 or greater as Wild Slash resolves, the ferocious ability will apply. Damage dealt that turn can't be prevented, even if you no longer control a creature with power 4 or greater as that damage would be dealt.
  • Wild Slash's ferocious ability applies to all damage that would be dealt that turn, including the damage Wild Slash deals.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.21 EUR / 0.27 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD
    Cardsphere 0.12 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 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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    Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, damage can't be prevented this turn. Wild Slash deals 2 damage to any target.

    Fiery Temper Instant Normal

    Fury Charm Instant Normal - ~$1.86

    Lightning Axe Instant Normal - ~$3.57

    Skewer the Critics Sorcery Normal - ~$1.82

    Wild Slash Instant Normal - ~$2.25

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