Riddle of Lightning
{3}
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Reference price
- Nonfoil
- $0.17
- Foil
- $0.49
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Price history
- Nonfoil
- Down 29% in 17 days
- Foil
- No change in 17 days
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Printing details
- Set
- Future Sight
- Released
- May 4, 2007
- Language
- en
- Collector no.
- #105
- Rarity
- common
Card text
Oracle text — the current official rules text for this card.
Choose any target. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player.
What this card can do
- Scry
- To scry N, look at the top N cards and put any of them on the bottom.
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Beginner guide
Card text above uses Oracle text, the current official rules text for this card.
This costs three 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.
