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Ball Lightning
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Magic: The Gathering
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Premium Deck Series: Fire and LightningPD2 · #12
- Card type
- Creature — Elemental
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 0.66 € · ★ 1.01 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 6
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- Trevor Claxton
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-11-19
Rulings
The creature is sacrificed at the end of every turn in which it is on the battlefield. There is no choice about what turn to sacrifice it.
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Mystery Booster 2 · #130
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Masters 25 · #121
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Masters Edition · #87
Magic Online Promos · #35972
Judge Gift Cards 2001 · #1
Beatdown Box Set · #35
World Championship Decks 1998 · #br210
Fifth Edition · #210
Renaissance · #73
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border · #176
Fourth Edition · #176
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