USD
$0.32
USD foil
$0.50
EUR
€0.16
MTGO
0.04 tix
Lightning Axe
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 
.
Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.
"A gargoyle's meat can be carved with an ordinary cleaver, but for its petrous hide . . ." —Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, *The Underworld Cookbook*
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered (TSR #174)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Released
- 2021-03-19
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- EDHREC rank
- #6,978
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, 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
0.17
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
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Not legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Legal
Rulings
- 2021-03-19
The mana value of Lightning Axe is 1, no matter which additional cost you paid.