Burst Lightning

Foundations (FDN) #192 · Common · Instant

Mana cost: {R}

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.)
Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.

Illustrated by Vance Kovacs · Released November 15, 2024

Prices

Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: down $0.06 USD (20.7%) to $0.23 USD; low $0.16 USD, high $0.33 USD.

Printings

  1. Wizards Play Network 2026 #20 (PW26) · Rare · 2026
  2. Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive #41 (SOA) · Uncommon · 2026 · $0.29 USD
  3. Foundations #192 (this printing) · Common · 2024 · $0.23 USD
  4. The List #P10-8 (PLST) · Rare · 2020 · $7.81 USD
  5. The List #MM2-109 (PLST) · Common · 2019 · $0.33 USD
  6. Modern Masters 2015 #109 (MM2) · Common · 2015 · $0.21 USD
  7. Magic Online Promos #37610 (PRM) · Common · 2014
  8. Magic Player Rewards 2010 #8 (P10) · Rare · 2010 · $16.60 USD
  9. Zendikar #119 (ZEN) · Common · 2009 · $0.19 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2024-11-08 · wotc — The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  2. 2024-11-08 · wotc — To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
  3. 2024-11-08 · wotc — If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  4. 2024-11-08 · wotc — If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  5. 2024-11-08 · wotc — If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  6. 2024-11-08 · wotc — If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Fire Lord Azula · in 8% of 50 decks

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