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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Riddle of Lightning

Cards equivalent to Riddle of Lightning (red, instant, damage based on top cards):
1. Mizzium Mortars — deals damage but doesn’t care about topdecks.
2. Magma Opus — deals damage, interacts with top of library with card draw.
3. Mindclaw Shaman — uses opponent’s spells, not your library.
4. Erratic Explosion — exactly the same mechanic as Riddle of Lightning but deals damage equal to a revealed card.


Reason: Erratic Explosion is the most direct equivalent. Others are close but lack the reveal and deal equal to CMC mechanic.

Results:

Erratic Explosion #201 Sorcery

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Rarity: Common
Converted Cost: 3
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • If all your cards are lands, no damage is dealt.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.11 USD / 0.69 USD
    Cardmarket 0.11 EUR / 1.28 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.21 USD
    Manapool 0.15 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

    Text

    Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

    Magma Opus #203 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 8
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Treasure Elemental

    Abilities/Keywords

    Rules

  • If somehow all of Magma Opus's targets are illegal as it tries to resolve, none of its effects happen. You will not create an Elemental token or draw two cards.
  • The same permanent can be chosen as a target for each of the two instances of "target." That is, you can have Magma Opus both deal damage to a creature or planeswalker and then tap it. (We're having a hard time imagining why you would, but you're the brilliant student.)
  • You also choose how the 4 damage will be divided among the first group of targets as you cast Magma Opus. You must have at least 1 damage dealt to each of those targets.
  • You choose all targets for Magma Opus as you cast the spell. This includes up to four targets for the first effect and two target permanents for the second effect.
  • You must choose two different target permanents for the second effect. You may choose permanents that are already tapped.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.4 USD / 0.98 USD
    Cardmarket 0.88 EUR / 2.8 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.92 USD
    Manapool 0.5 USD / 0.89 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards. ,Discardthis card: Create a Treasure token.

    Mindclaw Shaman #142 Creature — Lizard Shaman

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Lizard
  • Shaman
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • Any player can respond to Mindclaw Shaman’s triggered ability. However, once that ability starts resolving and the target opponent reveals their hand, players can’t respond until after the ability finishes resolving. For example, the opponent can’t cast the instant or sorcery card you choose to cast in order to stop you from casting it.
  • If the card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as its value.
  • If you can’t cast any instant or sorcery card (perhaps because there are no legal targets available) or if you choose not to cast one, then Mindclaw Shaman’s ability finishes resolving and the game moves on.
  • If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the card has mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
  • The card goes to its owner’s graveyard after it resolves (or otherwise leaves the stack), not yours.
  • You cast the card from the opponent’s hand immediately. Ignore timing restrictions based on the card’s type. Other timing restrictions, such as “Cast [this card] only during combat,” must be followed.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.27 USD / 3.34 USD
    Cardmarket 0.34 EUR / 1.89 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 1.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.28 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 2.79 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

    Mizzium Mortars #101 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Overload

    Rules

  • Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
  • If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.
  • If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
  • Note that if the spell with overload is dealing damage, protection from that spell's color will still prevent that damage.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload 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 0.45 USD / 2.77 USD
    Cardmarket 0.31 EUR / 1.5 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD / 2.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.46 USD
    Manapool 0.45 USD / 1.46 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control. Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

    Riddle of Lightning #107 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If the chosen target is an illegal target by the time Riddle of Lightning tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't scry 3 or reveal any card.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.07 USD / 0.5 USD
    Cardmarket 0.07 EUR / 0.24 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Cardsphere 0.2 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.2 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 any target. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player.

    Erratic Explosion Sorcery Normal - ~$0.73

    Magma Opus Instant Normal - ~$1.21

    Mindclaw Shaman Creature — Lizard Shaman Normal - ~$1.27

    Mizzium Mortars Sorcery Normal - ~$1.23

    Riddle of Lightning Instant Normal - ~$0.25

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