Beacon Bolt
Sorcery
Beacon Bolt deals damage to target creature equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #11537
Beacon Bolt deals damage equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, which in the right shell turns it into a one-sided board wipe for creatures by turn five or six. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot is the natural home — her spellslinger engine fills the graveyard fast enough that Beacon Bolt reliably kills anything that matters.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot
Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot casts and recasts instants and sorceries at a pace that loads the graveyard by the mid-game, making Beacon Bolt a scalable removal spell that outgrows every creature on the board — 70% of Lilah lists run it for exactly that reason.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Beacon Bolt is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in dedicated spellslinger decks where the graveyard count climbs high enough to justify a three-mana sorcery. In Commander it's a clean fit: longer games mean more instants and sorceries in the bin, and a single target removal spell that scales to 10+ damage is genuinely useful. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, sorcery speed is a significant downside and cheaper unconditional removal wins out — Beacon Bolt sees essentially no play there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in the ways that matter for this card, so the same spellslinger planeswalkers that want it in Commander want it there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Beacon Bolt is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bargain bin without a second thought. Bulk uncommons with narrow homes don't tend to move in price, so expect it to stay in this range indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.