Lightning Axe

Lightning Axe

Instant

Mana cost: {R}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay {5}.

on-cast —

Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.

on-cast — deals 5 damage

Causes: discard a card, a creature deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

When Lightning Axe makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

When Lightning Axe deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
  3. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  5. Dragonborn Champion — draws you 1 card
  6. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  7. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  8. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

36 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

When Lightning Axe is cast:

  1. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  2. Tor Wauki the Younger — deals 2 damage
  3. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  4. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  5. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  6. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  7. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  8. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  9. Artist's Talent — draws and discards
  10. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell

427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

  1. Charnelhoard Wurm — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Charnelhoard Wurm can bring back
  2. Samwise Gamgee — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  3. Bloodbond March — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  4. Transplant Theorist — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  5. Heart-Shaped Herb — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  6. Wayward Angel — Lightning Axe fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  7. Rescue from the Underworld — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  8. Victimize — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  9. Bound // Determined — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back
  10. Enlightened Confidant — Lightning Axe puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Lightning Axe:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is dealt damage — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

When a creature is dealt damage thanks to Lightning Axe:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Shriveling Rot — kills it
  3. Cryoshatter — kills a creature
  4. Hot Soup — kills a creature
  5. Cracked Skull — kills a creature
  6. Sporogenic Infection — kills a creature
  7. Frozen Solid — kills a creature
  8. Mortal Wound — kills a creature
  9. Mire Blight — kills it
  10. Death Pits of Rath — kills it

17 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Axe is one).

When Lightning Axe is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Master of Winds — triggers

6 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.