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Redirect Lightning
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay {2}.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Redirect Lightning is the kind of “magi-forged discipline” you learn after surviving a battlefield where mistakes cost more than blood—exactly because it asks you to pay 5 life or the simpler {2}. In practice, it’s a flexible tempo-control tool: by redirecting a single-target spell or ability, you blunt removal, counter a lethal burn line, or force an opponent’s plan to fizzle without spending your own mana inefficiently. The real edge is sequencing—wait until the pivotal target is chosen, then redirect before damage or resolution, turning their committed play against them. In deckbuilding terms, it shines most in control shells that can afford incidental life loss (or that curve into cheap interaction) and pairs naturally with effects that punish them for wasting removal, like resilient threats or commanders/engines that maintain value even after trades. Use it to support a control game plan with sharp, low-commitment disruption that keeps your board stable while you set up inevitability.
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Character Background
Redirect Lightning is the kind of “magi-forged discipline” you learn after surviving a battlefield where mistakes cost more than blood—exactly because it asks you to pay 5 life or the simpler {2}. In practice, it’s a flexible tempo-control tool: by redirecting a single-target spell or ability, you blunt removal, counter a lethal burn line, or force an opponent’s plan to fizzle without spending your own mana inefficiently. The real edge is sequencing—wait until the pivotal target is chosen, then redirect before damage or resolution, turning their committed play against them. In deckbuilding terms, it shines most in control shells that can afford incidental life loss (or that curve into cheap interaction) and pairs naturally with effects that punish them for wasting removal, like resilient threats or commanders/engines that maintain value even after trades. Use it to support a control game plan with sharp, low-commitment disruption that keeps your board stable while you set up inevitability.
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