Lightning Storm
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Reference price
- Nonfoil
- $0.33
- Foil
- $2.65
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- Nonfoil
- Up 14% in 18 days
- Foil
- Up 6% in 18 days
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Printing details
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Released
- July 21, 2006
- Language
- en
- Collector no.
- #89
- Rarity
- uncommon
Card text
Oracle text — the current official rules text for this card.
Lightning Storm deals X damage to any target, where X is 3 plus the number of charge counters on Lightning Storm.
Discard a land card: Put two charge counters on Lightning Storm. You may choose a new target for it. Any player may activate this ability but only if Lightning Storm is on the stack.
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Beginner guide
Card text above uses Oracle text, the current official rules text for this card.
This costs one mana of any type and two red mana.
- Mana
- Mana is the resource you spend to cast spells and activate abilities.
- Generic mana
- A numbered mana cost can be paid with mana of any type.
- Land
- Lands are cards that commonly produce mana.
