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Chain Lightning 
Oracle Text
. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Chain Lightning, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duel Commander | 9 | 1 | 367 | 1 |
| Pauper | 13 | 2.2 | 93 | 2.1 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1.2 |
Details
- Set
- Arena Anthology 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 12
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Chain Lightning
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 1 Headliner Scarlett$5.52 0.10 tix
- 1 Bomat Courier
$0.20
0.02 tix - 1 Loyal Apprentice
$0.26
0.34 tix
- 1 Slickshot Show-Off
$4.97
4.59 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.53
4.44 tix
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
$3.94
9.92 tix - 1 Detective's Phoenix
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$3.99
1.17 tix
- 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Simian Spirit Guide
$2.97
0.01 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.59
0.70 tix - 1 Pinnacle Monk
$1.15
0.08 tix
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
$1.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Embereth Veteran
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Falkenrath Gorger
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Falkenrath Pit Fighter
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Goblin Guide
$0.43
0.06 tix
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
$0.29
0.17 tix
- 1 Hired Claw
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Monastery Swiftspear
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Phoenix Chick
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Scar Mage
$0.84
0.13 tix
- 1 Vexing Devil
$0.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Zurgo Bellstriker
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Eidolon of the Great Revel
$1.79
0.87 tix
- 1 Icehide Golem
$0.17
0.03 tix
Sorceries (12)
- 1 Exquisite Firecraft
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Light Up the Stage
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Rift Bolt
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Skewer the Critics
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Sundering Eruption
$0.93
0.04 tix
- 1 Fiery Confluence
$0.36
3.70 tix
- 1 Chain Lightning
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Flame Slash
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Lava Spike
$1.06
0.03 tix
- 1 Rite of Flame
$5.85
0.01 tix
- 1 Shatterskull Smashing
$9.43
2.65 tix
Instants (20)
- 1 Incinerate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Lightning Strike
$0.11
0.01 tix
- 1 Searing Spear
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Skullcrack
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Flare of Duplication
$1.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Ghostfire Slice
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Fireblast
$0.54
0.04 tix - 1 Pyrokinesis
$1.59
7.31 tix
- 1 Burst Lightning
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Galvanic Blast
$1.96
0.68 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.80
0.02 tix
- 1 Play with Fire
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.69 tix
- 1 Shock
$0.04
0.01 tix
- 1 Tarfire
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Wild Slash
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Searing Blaze
$0.58
2.03 tix
- 1 Searing Blood
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Gut Shot
$4.87
0.03 tix
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.26 0.73 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.60 3.49 tix
- 1 Barbarian Ring$0.26 0.09 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.78 tix
- 1 Castle Embereth$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.17 tix
- 1 Desert$1.03 0.33 tix
- 1 Gemstone Caverns$52.31 0.90 tix
- 1 Lazotep Quarry$5.53 12.19 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.91 3.23 tix
- 1 Ramunap Ruins$0.27 0.04 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep$14.96 0.02 tix
- 17 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Sunscorched Desert$0.37 0.03 tix
- 1 War Room$2.44 4.80 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.84 2.49 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.43
0.50 tix - 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$45.82
7.15 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix - 1 Springheart Nantuko
$5.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Tarmogoyf
$5.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Endurance
$4.15
4.00 tix
- 1 Eternal Witness
$0.70
0.03 tix
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$12.89
24.41 tix
- 1 Grief
$2.84
0.24 tix
- 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
$2.08
0.02 tix
- 1 Six
$4.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
$3.94
9.92 tix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Simian Spirit Guide
$2.97
0.01 tix
- 1 Chaos Defiler
$7.08
92.00 tix
- 1 Pyrogoyf
$1.81
5.25 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.59
0.70 tix
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
$1.03
0.22 tix - 1 Generous Ent
$3.05
0.51 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.13
0.53 tix
- 1 Wight of the Reliquary
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.80 tix - 1 Arbor Elf
$0.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.50
0.10 tix
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
$3.63
0.03 tix
- 1 Elvish Mystic
$0.46
0.03 tix
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
$2.02
0.04 tix
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
$0.98
0.07 tix
- 1 Llanowar Elves
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Mawloc
$3.62
24.35 tix
Sorceries (12)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.29
6.24 tix
- 1 Eldritch Evolution
$2.86
0.03 tix
- 1 Living Death
$2.16
0.20 tix
- 1 Bone Shards
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
$0.41
1.00 tix
- 1 Reanimate
$7.68
0.02 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Unearth
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Chain Lightning
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Flame Slash
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Green Sun's Zenith
$27.51
5.69 tix
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (40)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.60 3.49 tix
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.87 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.59 tix
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.85 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.78 tix
- 1 Blooming Marsh$1.96 0.09 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.98 9.25 tix
- 1 Command Tower$0.28 0.01 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.77 1.18 tix
- 1 Copperline Gorge$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.72 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.90 1.02 tix
- 1 Lazotep Quarry$5.53 12.19 tix
- 1 Llanowar Wastes$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mutavault$4.05 0.22 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.35 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$25.78 1.19 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.01 2.38 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.91 3.23 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.18 1.27 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 1 Shifting Woodland$4.24 0.09 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.36 0.06 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 4.10 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.42 0.15 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$13.38 1.53 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.11 0.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.84 2.49 tix
- 1 Woodland Cemetery$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.82 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
- 4 Great Furnace$2.15 8.44 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
- 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
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
