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Redirect Lightning 
Instant — Lesson
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay 
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Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
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Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.Format Legality
StandardPioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Redirect Lightning, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duel Commander | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 |
| Pioneer | 4 | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| Modern | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1.2 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1.1 |
| Standard | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1.7 |
| Vintage | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 343
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Redirect Lightning
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (24)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (30)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (27)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (28)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Artifacts (23)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (16)
- 1 Currency Converter
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
- 1 Phyrexian Furnace
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
- 1 Scrabbling Claws
- 1 Staff of the Storyteller
- 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Boros Signet
- 1 Disruptor Flute
- 1 Liquimetal Torque
- 1 Mind Stone
- 1 Talisman of Conviction
- 1 The Ooze
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
- 1 Portable Hole
Enchantments (7)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boros Garrison
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Clifftop Retreat
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Elegant Parlor
- 1 Flagstones of Trokair
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Glittering Massif
- 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- 1 Inspiring Vantage
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Maze of Ith
- 1 Mistveil Plains
- 1 Monumental Henge
- 1 Needleverge Pathway
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Rugged Prairie
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Snow-Covered Mountain
- 4 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Sunbillow Verge
- 1 Sundown Pass
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Urza's Cave
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Hullbreacher
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
- 1 Brazen Borrower
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
- 1 Vendilion Clique
- 1 Ademi of the Silkchutes
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- 1 Voice of Victory
- 1 Aang, Swift Savior
- 1 Spell Queller
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Mother of Runes
- 1 Dennick, Pious Apprentice
- 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Sorceries (7)
Instants (29)
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Path to Exile
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Ghostfire Slice
- 1 Misdirection
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Redirect Lightning
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Lightning Helix
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
Enchantments (2)
Lands (35)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Elegant Parlor
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 2 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 2 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Artifacts (22)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (19)
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Untimely Malfunction
- 1 Ghostfire Slice
- 1 Open the Omenpaths
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Mine Collapse
- 1 Pyrokinesis
- 1 Not of This World
- 1 Crop Rotation
- 1 Savage Summoning
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Galvanic Blast
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Redirect Lightning
- 1 Final Fortune
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (10)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (40)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Castle Garenbrig
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Cragcrown Pathway
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
- 1 Forest
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Havenwood Battleground
- 1 Hickory Woodlot
- 1 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 4 Mountain
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Rootbound Crag
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Thornspire Verge
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (19)
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Untimely Malfunction
- 1 Ghostfire Slice
- 1 Open the Omenpaths
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Mine Collapse
- 1 Pyrokinesis
- 1 Not of This World
- 1 Crop Rotation
- 1 Savage Summoning
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Galvanic Blast
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Redirect Lightning
- 1 Final Fortune
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (10)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (40)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Castle Garenbrig
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Cragcrown Pathway
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
- 1 Forest
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Havenwood Battleground
- 1 Hickory Woodlot
- 1 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Mountain
- 3 Mountain
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Rootbound Crag
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Thornspire Verge
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Artifacts (15)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
