Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt is a red card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame JGP printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€2.05) · TCGplayer ($2.41) · Scryfall
How often Lightning Bolt is played
Lightning Bolt is maindecked in 7 of 39 tournament decks in this archive (18%), averaging 4.0 copies; used by 2 of 17 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 19 decks that can cast red cards, 7 of them play it (37%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Lightning Bolt
- Sligh (4x)
- The Solution: Kills Birds of Paradise, Goblin Lackey, Wild Mongrel and Priest of Titania for one mana early, then converts into the last three points of reach.
Tournament decks with Lightning Bolt
- Pillar Burn: 5th Place at FNM Lair EDITION (4× mainboard)
- Machine Head: 4th Place at Premodern Mainz Monthly (4× mainboard)
- RG Zoo: 1st Place at 4Seasons Spring Ed. Bologna (Italy) (4× mainboard)
- Mono Red Burn: 1st Place at The Old Skull La Plata (4× mainboard)
- RG Zoo: 1st Place at Retromancers' Monthly (4× mainboard)
- Mono R Ponza: 1st Place at Chile Premier League – May 2026 (4× mainboard)
- The Solution: 2nd Place at Monthly Italiano Maggio (4× mainboard)
