Riddle of Lightning

Riddle of Lightning

Instant

Mana cost: {3}{R}{R}

How we read this card

Choose any target. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player.

on-cast — scries

on-cast — deals that card's mana value damage

Causes: scry, a permanent deals noncombat damage, anything deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

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

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

you scry — 420 cards in the game can cause this (Riddle of Lightning is one).

When Riddle of Lightning scries:

  1. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  2. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  3. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  4. Celeborn the Wise — makes your creatures bigger
  5. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  7. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Elminster — costs less
  9. Elrond, Master of Healing — puts a counter on a creature
  10. Galadriel of Lothlórien — puts a land onto the battlefield

10 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 (Riddle of Lightning is one).

When Riddle of Lightning 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. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  6. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  7. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  8. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  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 (Riddle of Lightning is one).

When Riddle of Lightning 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.

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

When Riddle of Lightning 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.

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

When a player is dealt damage thanks to Riddle of Lightning:

  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 (Riddle of Lightning is one).

When Riddle of Lightning 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.