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Burst Lightning 
Oracle Text
(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.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Burst Lightning, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 78 | 2.8 | 870 | 3.3 |
| Pioneer | 32 | 3.2 | 503 | 3.2 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 152 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 106
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Burst Lightning
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.78 0.02 tix
- 1 Blightstep Pathway— —
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 2 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.14 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Ramunap Ruins$0.27 0.04 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.19 0.03 tix
- 3 Sulfurous Springs$1.05 0.02 tix
- 1 Sulfurous Springs$1.05 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 1 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.14 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mutavault$4.05 0.22 tix
- 2 Ramunap Ruins$0.27 0.04 tix
- 2 Rockface Village$0.33 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Pawpatch Formation
$0.30
0.29 tix - 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.32
—
- 2 Questing Druid
—
—
- 1 Reckless Rage
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Redcap Melee
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Redcap Melee$0.21 0.03 tix
- 2 Scorching Shot
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Screaming Nemesis
$5.93
1.22 tix - 1 Sentinel of the Nameless City
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Torch the Tower
$0.30
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Mother of Runes$8.41 2.17 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.21 tix - 1 Faerie Mastermind
$10.64
0.03 tix - 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
$1.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
$16.15
0.14 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
—
—
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.81 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
—
—
- 1 Archivist of Oghma
$5.88
8.93 tix
- 1 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.65
0.51 tix
- 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.26
0.10 tix
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Simian Spirit Guide
$2.92
0.01 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.65
7.96 tix
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
$2.21
0.61 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$14.77
8.00 tix
- 1 Solitude
$34.08
5.00 tix - 1 Murktide Regent
$7.40
6.57 tix - 1 Giver of Runes
$8.80
2.04 tix
- 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
$0.73
0.02 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (29)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Lose Focus
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory Lapse
$0.38
0.04 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$48.99
18.36 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
—
—
- 1 Reprieve
$1.26
0.17 tix
- 1 Ghostfire Slice
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$25.46
10.65 tix
- 1 Burst Lightning
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.79
0.02 tix
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.28
0.01 tix
- 1 Lightning Helix
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.89 tix
- 1 Force Spike
$0.99
0.04 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.30 tix
- 1 Wash Away
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix - 1 Mana Tithe
$0.80
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.16
0.04 tix
- 1 Tithe
$6.76
1.64 tix
- 1 No More Lies
$0.33
0.25 tix
- 1 Occult Epiphany
$1.13
3.99 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.08 0.73 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$31.07 3.92 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Command Tower$0.27 0.01 tix
- 1 Deserted Beach$4.66 0.03 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.42 0.15 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.16 4.91 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Floodfarm Verge$8.83 0.19 tix
- 1 Glacial Fortress$0.23 0.02 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 1 Hengegate Pathway— —
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.43 0.88 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.35 3.99 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.31 2.08 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 3.27 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.94 3.18 tix
- 1 Reflecting Pool$11.32 0.10 tix
- 1 Riverglide Pathway— —
- 1 Riverpyre Verge$20.75 0.70 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.44 0.16 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Seachrome Coast$0.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.22 0.58 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stormcarved Coast$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Sulfur Falls$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Sunbillow Verge$10.09 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.51 6.59 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 13.61 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.34 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (23)
- 3 Copperline Gorge$0.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Copperline Gorge$0.43 0.02 tix
- 4 Karplusan Forest$0.44 0.23 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Rockface Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 2 Soulstone Sanctuary$0.45 0.02 tix
- 4 Thornspire Verge$5.30 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Chandra, Spark Hunter
$2.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Vacuum
$3.75
0.80 tix
- 2 Lithomantic Barrage
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Stock Up
$1.29
0.40 tix
- 1 Tersa Lightshatter
$0.63
0.03 tix
- 2 Third Path Iconoclast
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 3 Torch the Tower
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Witchstalker Frenzy
$0.32
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.78 0.02 tix
- 1 Blightstep Pathway— —
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 2 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.14 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Ramunap Ruins$0.27 0.04 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.19 0.03 tix
- 3 Sulfurous Springs$1.05 0.02 tix
- 1 Sulfurous Springs$1.05 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
