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"Find me cards equivalent to: Lightning Bolt"

Equivalent cards to Lightning Bolt (red, instant, direct damage):

  • Shock (Deals 2 damage for 1 red, instant. Similar but slightly weaker.)
  • Wild Slash (1 red, 2 damage, can prevent damage prevention.)
  • Skewer the Critics (3 damage for 1 red with spectacle, but usually slower.)
  • Play with Fire (1 red, 2 damage, lets you scry 1.)
  • Lava Spike (1 red, 3 damage to player, but not to creatures.)

All are red spells that deal direct damage like Lightning Bolt.

Found Cards

6 Results

Lava Spike

Lightning Bolt

Play with Fire

Shock

Skewer the Critics

Wild Slash

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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    Normal
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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.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 0.99 USD 0.99 USD
    Manapool / 1.23 USD 0.81 USD
    Tcgplayer / 2.35 USD 0.87 USD
    Cardmarket 0.96 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

    Text

    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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  • Instant
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    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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  • Instant
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.62 USD / 4.22 USD
    Manapool 0.52 USD / 4.39 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD / 9.99 USD
    Cardmarket 0.57 EUR / 3.61 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.)

    Shock #27 Instant

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Instant
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    Tcgplayer / 2.72 USD 0.69 USD
    Cardkingdom / 3.99 USD 1.29 USD
    Cardmarket / 3.17 EUR 1.04 EUR
    Manapool / 1.72 USD 0.67 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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    Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

    Skewer the Critics #26 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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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 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.18 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 0.27 USD 0.16 USD
    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.

    Wild Slash #8 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Instant
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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.

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    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket 0.24 EUR / 0.27 EUR
    Manapool 0.19 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.