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Living Lightning

Creature — Elemental Shaman

When this creature dies, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Double Masters 2022
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#17447
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Living Lightning card art
Living Lightning reanimates a target creature with haste until end of turn — you get the attack or ability immediately, no setup required. At two mana it sits in the same slot as Feign Death but trades protection for a free swing, which is the right call in any deck that wins through combat or needs one more activation before the turn ends.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Living Lightning earns its slot — reusable commanders and sacrifice synergies both love the haste clause, and two mana is cheap enough to leave up without crippling your own turn. In Pauper, the common designation makes it a real consideration for reanimator shells that need speed over resilience. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken reanimation that Living Lightning rarely competes, but the haste rider does something Animate Dead can't, so niche applications exist. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Standard.

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Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Living Lightning is pure bulk — pick up a playset for less than a pack of gum. Bulk commons with narrow applications tend to stay bulk, so don't expect any movement here.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.