Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt is a red card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame JGP printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.95) · TCGplayer ($3.26) · Scryfall
How often Lightning Bolt is played
Lightning Bolt is maindecked in 19 of 77 tournament decks in this archive (25%), averaging 3.9 copies; kept in 1 sideboard (1%); used by 2 of 21 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 39 decks that can cast red cards, 20 of them play it (51%).
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
- Guided Passage: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- Red Broccoli Soup: 2nd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante La Casa dei Giochi (4× mainboard)
- Goblins: 3rd Place at Midwest Championship Open (4× mainboard)
- Minotaurs: 2nd Place at Adriatic Pile - 3° Tappa (4× mainboard)
- 5C Solution: 2nd Place at Peach Ball @ Giga-Bites (4× mainboard)
- Sligh: 1st Place at BCDL Open 5 @ The Warp Gate (4× mainboard)
- Mono Red Control: 3rd Place at Mogg Monthly: Phyrexian Colaugust (4× mainboard)
- BRG Midrange: 7th Place at PM Burro Singles @SPMCR (3× mainboard)
- BR Carnophage Ponza: 3rd Place at Torneo @ Comix Café (2× sideboard)
- Darigaaz Midrange Sideboard: 3rd Place at Liga Feijoada 2026 #8 (4× mainboard)
- Bwg Control: 1st Place at LA Open 2026 (4× mainboard)
- Ponza Red: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- Tropical Naught: 2nd Place at Mensual Premodern Valencia (4× mainboard)
- 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)
Spicy brews with Lightning Bolt
- Hammer Time (4×)
- Deadapult (4×)
- 4c Blessing Control (1×)
