QUESTION: if you use an instant that says "(-2,-2) on target creature until the end of the turn" if you use that to make it attack a (2,2) creature will that creature die? PLEASE RESPOND NEED HELP! thank you!
Posted By:
flzooman
(10/24/2009 3:12:45 PM)
Yeah, lightning bolt is standard right now, but who knows if it'll be printed again. It's a moot point to say lightning bolt is better because that doesn't matter. Obviously 3 is greater than 2, you're not really pointing anything out. What matters more is whichever one is standard is helping define the current pace of play.
Posted By:
demonixx
(3/15/2010 2:04:20 AM)
@sozomai
How is Magma Spray better than Shock?
Posted By:
Ladnarud
(5/12/2010 2:35:51 PM)
HNNNNNNN
Posted By:
Stray_Dog
(1/19/2011 12:26:15 AM)
Ichorix I think Chain Lightning was secant best I mean I would diffidently deck it over this crap...
DacenOctavio this card couldn't take down storm crow in its wildest dreams.
Posted By:
dragonking987
(4/4/2011 8:59:20 PM)
Shock was definitely more appropriate than Lightning Bolt in its milder climate back in the day, but times change, and, in the current Standard environment, Shock just doesn't get the job done anymore. Wizards made a good decision to bring Lightning Bolt back in. Maybe one day, if we have another Mercadian Masques-style mass nerf, poor old Shock can come back into play. As it is now, though, it's time for the card to take a well-deserved retirement and reminisce on all of those mana-harvesting Myr it once killed.
Posted By:
DysprosiumJudas
(4/20/2011 10:42:15 PM)
Gah. At least red is getting grim lavamancer in m12. Grim lavamancer is SO GOOD. YOU HAVE NO IDEA ASDADADSADSADSWEQEQEWEQWWEDSAADS cant wait.
Posted By:
Crag-Hack
(6/22/2011 11:51:23 PM)
I've always thought that this art was done for the Ravnica block, and I think that Shock should have been reprinted in Ravnica, because it lacks one simple burn spell...
@LordAlvon: every card you've named is done after the return of Lightning Bolt, and your list end more or less exactly where you've stopped! This card was the standard between Tempest block and 10thEd and in its era it was quite good, even if not used so much because its alternatives were more appealing (for examples: Firebolt, Lightning Helix, Magma Jet, Scent of Cinder, Tarfire, Electrostatic Bolt)...
... now Lightning Bolt takes the entire scene... However I like Burst Lightning and Galvanic Blast more than Lightning Bolt, because they can deal 4 damage, when the game progresses...
I'm quite sad for Shock, but it had his time t... (see all)
Posted By:
leomistico
(7/4/2011 3:47:49 AM)