When you cast Lightning Storm, you immediately have a chance to activate its ability since you’ll have priority. If you don’t, and all other players pass, the spell will resolve. You won’t receive priority again — and thus won’t get another chance to activate its ability — unless someone else activates Lightning Storm’s activated ability, casts some other spell, or activates some other ability.
After an instance of Lightning Storm’s activated ability resolves, the active player (not Lightning Storm’s controller) receives priority.
When Lightning Storm leaves the stack, its charge counters go away.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from CSP — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #89 of *Coldsnap*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2006 Coldsnap release.
Card type: Instant, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{R}{R} (3 converted).
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #21,328 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Luca Zontini. Rarix catalogs 211 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Luca Zontini
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Lightning Storm has an activated ability that can be activated only while the spell is on the stack. Any player may activate that ability. When the ability is activated, it goes on the stack on top of Lightning Storm. When the ability resolves, the Lightning Storm spell is affected.
When Lightning Storm’s activated ability resolves, if there are no other legal targets to choose for the Lightning Storm spell, you must leave the target the same, even if it’s now an illegal target.
