Lightning, Security Sergeant
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever Lightning deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as you control Lightning.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Media and Collaboration Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10680
Lightning, Security Sergeant lands as a recursive threat that keeps coming back to pressure opponents every time you set up the right board state. The cost is real — it demands specific support to fire consistently — but Cloud, Planet's Champion decks absorb that requirement almost automatically, making it a near-auto-include in that shell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cloud, Planet's Champion
Cloud, Planet's Champion triggers off the exact conditions Lightning, Security Sergeant wants to exploit, turning what would be a standalone threat into a repeatable engine piece that snowballs quickly.
Lightning, Army of One
Lightning, Army of One shares a color identity and game plan with Lightning, Security Sergeant, and the two reward the same style of aggressive, threat-dense play — stacking them together compounds the pressure on opponents.
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy's combat-oriented strategy gives Lightning, Security Sergeant a natural home, where its recursive presence and aggressive stats slot cleanly into a deck that wants to keep attacking and keep threatening lethal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lightning, Security Sergeant earns its slot in focused synergy builds — particularly those helmed by Cloud, Planet's Champion — where its ability to recur and apply consistent pressure outweighs the setup cost. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it competes in a crowded field of efficient threats, so it needs a dedicated shell rather than a generic aggressive deck to justify inclusion. Standard gives it the most room to breathe, since the card pool is narrower and synergy-enabling pieces are easier to assemble. Legacy and Vintage can play it but have no real reason to — the power ceiling of those formats renders Lightning, Security Sergeant a background player at best.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.