Card library
Barbed Lightning
Click the card to switch sides
—Views
—Likes
—Times played
Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
DarksteelDST · #55
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.06 € · ★ 0.22 € · 0.23 $ · ★ 0.13 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Choose one — • Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature. • Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Hugh Jamieson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2004-02-06
Flavour text
Every creature on Mirrodin is a lightning rod.