Lightning Skelemental

Lightning Skelemental

Creature — Elemental Skeleton

Mana cost: {B}{R}{R}

How we read this card

Trample, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

triggered —

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

triggered —

Causes: discard a card, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies.

Cares about: an end step.

Works well with

an Elemental creature in a graveyard — 88 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

  1. Thunderkin Awakener — When Lightning Skelemental is in the graveyard, Thunderkin Awakener can bring it back

a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed — 90 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

  1. Ashling, the Limitless — When you sacrifice Lightning Skelemental, Ashling, the Limitless makes a token

an Elemental in a graveyard — 90 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When Lightning Skelemental is in the graveyard:

  1. Sunflare Shaman — gets bigger
  2. Horde of Notions — can bring it back

an Elemental is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 93 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When Lightning Skelemental is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Omnath, Locus of Rage — deals 3 damage
  2. Titania, Nature's Force — mills a card

an Elemental enters the battlefield — 754 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When Lightning Skelemental enters:

  1. Champion of the Path — deals its power damage
  2. Risen Reef — puts a land onto the battlefield

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When you sacrifice Lightning Skelemental:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When you sacrifice Lightning Skelemental:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

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

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

When a permanent makes a player discard a card thanks to Lightning Skelemental:

  1. Sangromancer — gains you 3 life
  2. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — puts a counter on an Advisor
  3. Nath of the Gilt-Leaf — makes a token
  4. Tourach, Dread Cantor — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance — deals 1 damage
  6. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar — hits a graveyard
  7. Fell Specter — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  8. Spirit Cairn — makes a token
  9. Confessor — gains you 1 life
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

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

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When Lightning Skelemental is in the graveyard:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring it back
  2. Edgar's Awakening — can bring it back
  3. Havengul Lich — can bring it back
  4. Liliana the Repentant — can bring it back
  5. Paleoloth — can bring it back
  6. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring it back
  7. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring it back
  8. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring it back
  9. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring it back
  10. Necromantic Thirst — can bring it back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When Lightning Skelemental dies:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When Lightning Skelemental leaves the battlefield, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

35 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 Skelemental is one).

  1. Pitchstone Wall — When Lightning Skelemental is in the graveyard, Pitchstone Wall can bring it back
  2. Containment Construct — When Lightning Skelemental is in the graveyard, Containment Construct can bring it back
  3. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — When Lightning Skelemental is in the graveyard, Moonstone, Harsh Mistress can bring it back
  4. Havi, the All-Father — Lightning Skelemental fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

When Lightning Skelemental attacks:

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  2. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — triggers
  3. Cool but Rude — draws and discards

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Skelemental is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Lightning Skelemental attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

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