MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #35972

Ball Lightning

DIGITAL ONLY

prm·#35972·rare·foil

Illus. Quinton Hoover

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Oct '14

12 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #9,160 · Niche pick

Variants

Foil

Gameplay

Creature — Elemental

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

"Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Aurora Leigh"

6/1

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 1

2007-02-01wotc

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.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PRM — the lineup includes Foil 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 #35972 of *Magic Online Promos*, the promotional run that shipped alongside the October 2014 Magic Online release.

Card type: Creature — Elemental, color identity red, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {R}{R}{R} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Haste and Trample.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #9,160 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Quinton Hoover. Rarix catalogs 321 other cards credited to this artist.