Burst Lightning
Instant
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.
"May the storm yield only when your last enemy has fallen."
โ*Otarian Battle Cries*
Illustrated by Eleonor Piteira ยท Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA)
Legalities
- Standard
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
Printings
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Wizards Play Network 2026 #20 rare 2026-11-20
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Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive #41 uncommon 2026-04-24
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Foundations #192 common 2024-11-15
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The List #P10-8 rare 2020-09-01
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The List #MM2-109 common 2019-11-07
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Modern Masters 2015 #109 common 2015-05-22
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Magic Online Promos #37610 common 2014-10-17
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Magic Player Rewards 2010 #8 rare 2010-01-01
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Zendikar #119 common 2009-10-02
Rulings
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To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
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If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
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The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
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If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
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If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
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If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw 100.0% of lists
Pioneer
- Izzet Prowess 95.1% of lists
- Mono-Red Aggro 89.2% of lists
- Other 6.6% of lists
Show 1 more Pioneer archetypes
- Izzet Spellementals 3.1% of lists
Standard
- Boros Dragons 100.0% of lists
- Elementals 100.0% of lists
- Izzet Aggro 100.0% of lists
Show 10 more Standard archetypes
- Mono-Red Aggro 100.0% of lists
- Rakdos Lizards 100.0% of lists
- Izzet Spellementals 98.0% of lists
- Izzet Maestro 83.3% of lists
- Izzet Prowess 73.6% of lists
- Other 25.0% of lists
- Tiger-Seal 14.3% of lists
- The Naked Time 10.0% of lists
- Mardu Discard 7.7% of lists
- 4c Control 2.2% of lists