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Redirect Lightning

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Redirect Lightning

Legal

Type line

Instant — Lesson

Oracle text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay . Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Rulings

  • If a spell or ability targets multiple things, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning, even if all but one of those targets have become illegal.2025-10-02
  • You don't choose the new target for the spell or ability until Redirect Lightning resolves. You must change the target if possible. However, you can't change the target to an illegal target. If there are no legal targets to choose from, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target has somehow become illegal itself.2025-10-02
  • If a spell or ability targets the same player or object multiple times, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning.2025-10-02

Market price

$12.12

Commanders that play this card

Use over time

29 public decks with Redirect Lightning saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.

Jul 27This week

Often played with

Across the 37 public decks that play Redirect Lightning.

37 of 37 (100%)
36 of 37 (97%)
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29 of 37 (78%)
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27 of 37 (73%)