Lightning Surge

a permanent is dealt damage — 17 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Surge is one).

1. Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger — When a permanent is dealt damage thanks to Lightning Surge, Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger deals that much damage

damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Surge is one).

When Lightning Surge has damage prevented:

1. Phyrexian Vindicator — deals that much damage
2. Selfless Squire — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
3. New Way Forward — deals that much damage
4. Samite Ministration — gains you that much life
5. Judgment of Alexander — deals its power damage

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

When Lightning Surge 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.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Surge is one).

When Lightning Surge makes a player lose life:

1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
8. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
9. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
10. Lich's Mastery — triggers

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

a sorcery it makes cheaper to cast — 3,585 cards in the game can cause this.

1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Lightning Surge costs

3,584 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Surge is one).

When Lightning Surge is cast:

1. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
2. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
3. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
4. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
5. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
6. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
7. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
8. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
9. Artist's Talent — draws and discards
10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 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 Surge is one).

1. Sokka, Bold Boomeranger — Sokka, Bold Boomeranger fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs
2. Nature's Wrath — Nature's Wrath fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs
3. Samwise Gamgee — Samwise Gamgee fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs
4. Liliana the Repentant — Liliana the Repentant fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs
5. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs
6. Rankle and Torbran — Rankle and Torbran fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs
7. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Lightning Surge needs

7,582 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is dealt damage — 19,812 cards in the game can cause this (Lightning Surge is one).

When Lightning Surge is dealt damage:

1. Massacre Girl, Most Wanted — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
2. War Elemental — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
3. Darien, King of Kjeldor — makes that many tokens
4. Blood Hound — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
5. Chandra's Spitfire — gets +3/+0
6. Wildfire Elemental — gives +1/+0
7. Master of Barbs — gives +1/+0
8. Swarmborn Giant — sacrifices itself
9. Risona, Asari Commander — triggers
10. Azor's Elocutors — triggers

5 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 Surge is one).

When Lightning Surge 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. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
7. Master of Winds — triggers

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