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Lightning Rift
Enchantment
Whenever a player cycles a card, you may pay . If you do, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.
Options will cost you, but a lack of them will cost you even more.
- Set
- Magic Online Promos (PRM #32571)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2013-01-11
- Artist
- Eric Peterson
- EDHREC rank
- #17,776
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
1
+
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.36
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Not legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Legal
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2022-12-08
You choose the target when Lightning Rift’s ability is put on the stack, but you choose whether to pay the mana as the ability resolves. Once you make that choice, no player may take actions until the damage is dealt and the ability has finished resolving.