Redirect Lightning
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Avatar: The Last AirbenderTLA · #151
- Card type
- Instant — Lesson
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 11.22 € · ★ 12.57 € · 11.54 $ · ★ 13.02 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay . Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Toni Infante
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2025-11-21
Flavour text
"A Waterbender lets their defense become their offense, turning their opponent's energy against them. I learned a way to do this with lightning." —Iroh
Rulings
If a spell or ability targets multiple things, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning, even if all but one of those targets have become illegal.
If a spell or ability targets the same player or object multiple times, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning.
You don't choose the new target for the spell or ability until Redirect Lightning resolves. You must change the target if possible. However, you can't change the target to an illegal target. If there are no legal targets to choose from, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target has somehow become illegal itself.
