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"Find me cards equivalent to: Lightning Blow"

Cards similar to Lightning Blow (white instant, grants first strike, draws a card) include:
1. Defiant Strike – White instant, target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn, draw a card.
2. Acrobatic Maneuver – White instant, exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield, draw a card.
3. Shelter – White instant, target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn, draw a card.

All are white instants that affect a creature and let you draw a card, though none give first strike exactly. Lightning Blow remains unique in combining first strike and delayed draw.

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Acrobatic Maneuver

Defiant Strike

Lightning Blow

Shelter

Acrobatic Maneuver #1 Instant

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  • After the creature returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the creature that was exiled. It won't be in combat or have any additional abilities it may have had before it was exiled. Any +1/+1 counters on it or Auras attached to it are removed, and any Equipment will no longer be attached.
  • If a creature token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.

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    Tcgplayer / 1.75 USD 0.13 USD
    Cardkingdom / 2.99 USD 0.69 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.71 EUR 0.1 EUR
    Manapool / 0.62 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

    Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Draw a card.

    Defiant Strike #66 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Defiant Strike tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. You won't draw a card.

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    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.45 USD 0.49 USD 0.61 USD
    Manapool 0.41 USD 0.42 USD 0.41 USD
    Cardmarket 0.73 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

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    Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card.

    Lightning Blow #18 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • If the targeted creature doesn’t have first strike, granting it first strike after combat damage has been dealt in the first combat damage step won’t prevent it from dealing combat damage. It will still assign and deal its combat damage in the second combat damage step.
  • You may target any creature, not just one that doesn’t have first strike. If the targeted creature already has first strike as Lightning Blow resolves, Lightning Blow won’t affect it (since multiple instances of first strike are redundant), but you’ll still draw a card at the beginning of the next turn’s upkeep.

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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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    Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

    Shelter #44 Instant

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.
  • Protection from a color means that the target creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.
  • The legality of a spell’s targets is checked only as that spell begins to resolve. If Shelter gives the targeted creature protection from white, you’ll still draw a card.
  • You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Shelter asks you to choose a color, since those are not colors.

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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

    Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.