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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: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Lands (25)
- 2 Ba Sing Se$3.34 0.60 tix
- 3 Escape Tunnel$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Fabled Passage$1.01 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Starting Town$9.56 7.61 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Thornspire Verge$5.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Willowrush Verge$6.30 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Broadside Barrage
$0.36
0.03 tix - 1 Detect Intrusion
$1.89
0.82 tix
- 2 Heritage Reclamation
$0.28
0.03 tix - 2 Loch Mare
$0.77
0.19 tix
- 3 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
$0.42
0.02 tix - 2 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
$1.03
0.02 tix - 1 Wistfulness
$9.66
7.15 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (24)
- 1 Abrade
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Lightning Strike
$0.11
0.01 tix
- 2 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 4 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 2 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 2 Spectral Interference
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 4 Burst Lightning
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Fire Magic
$0.94
3.88 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 3 Three Steps Ahead
$2.25
0.12 tix
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (21)
Lands (25)
- 2 Ba Sing Se$3.34 0.60 tix
- 3 Escape Tunnel$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Fabled Passage$1.01 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Starting Town$9.56 7.61 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Thornspire Verge$5.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Willowrush Verge$6.30 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Detect Intrusion
$1.89
0.82 tix
- 1 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 2 Heritage Reclamation
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Loch Mare
$0.77
0.19 tix
- 3 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Wistfulness
$9.66
7.15 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Abandon Attachments
$0.26
0.04 tix - 1 Firebending Lesson
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Iroh's Demonstration
$0.25
0.06 tix
- 2 Origin of Metalbending
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Redcap Melee
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Redirect Lightning
$9.99
0.31 tix
- 1 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 2 Scorching Shot
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Screaming Nemesis
$5.93
1.22 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Abandon Attachments
$0.26
0.04 tix
- 1 Earthbending Lesson
$0.14
0.04 tix
- 1 Firebending Lesson
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Iroh's Demonstration$0.25 0.06 tix
- 2 Origin of Metalbending
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Redcap Melee
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 2 Scorching Shot
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Seismic Sense
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 3 Zhao, the Moon Slayer$0.25 0.02 tix
- 4 Hexing Squelcher
$20.04
2.75 tix
- 3 Howlsquad Heavy
$2.48
0.02 tix
- 1 Howlsquad Heavy
$2.48
0.02 tix
- 2 Sunspine Lynx
$1.90
0.09 tix
- 4 Nova Hellkite
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Burnout Bashtronaut
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Burnout Bashtronaut
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 4 Hired Claw
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Kellan, Planar Trailblazer
$0.21
0.02 tix
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Accumulate Wisdom
$0.31
0.22 tix
- 1 Boomerang Basics
$0.57
2.24 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.49
0.04 tix
- 2 Detect Intrusion
$1.89
0.82 tix
- 1 Firebending Lesson
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Iroh's Demonstration
$0.25
0.06 tix
- 1 Octopus Form
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Scorching Shot
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Abandon Attachments
$0.26
0.04 tix
- 1 Boomerang Basics
$0.57
2.24 tix
- 1 Firebending Lesson
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Iroh's Demonstration
$0.25
0.06 tix
- 1 Mercurial Transformation
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Octopus Form
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Redcap Melee
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 2 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 2 Screaming Nemesis$5.93 1.22 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Urabrask's Forge
$1.07
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (21)
- 1 Full Bore$0.29 0.03 tix
- 1 Heritage Reclamation
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 4 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Detect Intrusion
$1.89
0.82 tix
- 2 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 3 Burst Lightning
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 3 Full Bore
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
Lands (25)
- 2 Ba Sing Se$3.34 0.60 tix
- 3 Escape Tunnel$0.24 0.03 tix
- 2 Fabled Passage$1.01 0.02 tix
- 2 Fabled Passage$1.01 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Starting Town$9.56 7.61 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Thornspire Verge$5.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Willowrush Verge$6.30 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Detect Intrusion
$1.89
0.82 tix
- 1 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 2 Heritage Reclamation
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Loch Mare
$0.77
0.19 tix
- 3 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Wistfulness
$9.66
7.15 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Lands (23)
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 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
- 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
- 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
- 3 Soulstone Sanctuary$0.45 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (14)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Abandon Attachments
$0.26
0.04 tix
- 1 Firebending Lesson
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Iroh's Demonstration
$0.25
0.06 tix
- 2 Origin of Metalbending
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Redcap Melee
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Redirect Lightning
$9.99
0.31 tix
- 1 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 2 Scorching Shot
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Screaming Nemesis
$5.93
1.22 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 1 Hexing Squelcher$20.04 2.75 tix
- 2 Hexing Squelcher$20.04 2.75 tix
- 4 Hired Claw$0.42 0.02 tix
- 4 Nova Hellkite$0.42 0.02 tix
- 2 Sunspine Lynx$1.90 0.09 tix
- 1 Hexing Squelcher
$20.04
2.75 tix
- 3 Zhao, the Moon Slayer
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Howlsquad Heavy
$2.48
0.02 tix
- 1 Howlsquad Heavy
$2.48
0.02 tix
- 1 Tersa Lightshatter
$0.63
0.03 tix
- 4 Burnout Bashtronaut
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Kellan, Planar Trailblazer
$0.21
0.02 tix
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
