Fun against red decks, it's a game of hot potatoe
Posted By:
Pontiac
(4/5/2011 6:05:40 PM)
I wonder if this has any chance of being reprinted in M12?
Posted By:
ayefightbears
(4/18/2011 8:57:24 PM)
I would like to point out that Mogg Maniac is cheaper for a red burn deck and has same ability as the new Spitemare and I prefer it myself. Although the Chain Lightning has the potential to be used as a combo with maniac or spitemare or stuffy, it still seems way overpriced. As a redundant lightning bolt? ehh.. maybe, but is it really worth what they're charging?
Posted By:
Unmerciful
(5/20/2011 4:06:54 PM)
I love this card, there are disadvantages but like everyone says, why wouldn't you want eight lightning bolts in you're deck! And they are really expensive, I wouldn't use them if it wasn't for the fact that today I was digging through the ten cent each bargain bin and found two chain lightnings from legends, a ball lightning from the dark, a wheel of fortune revised, and 12 lightning bolts from revised. Score!
Posted By:
EvilCleavage
(6/9/2011 2:52:35 PM)
This new art's fantastic, and whoever made the decision to reprint this as a common is a god among men -- but whoever said "common or no we're only putting in one per set" gets ten thousand thumbs down. :P
Too bad there isn't a non-foil version available; I'd love to just have a basic set of these with the new "you get to see your chain lightning actually zapping something" art.
Posted By:
Salient
(9/1/2011 1:57:56 PM)
Have 13 red mana, then be realllllllly sadistic, to yourself.
Posted By:
001010011100101110
(9/9/2011 8:58:06 PM)
I agree with Grimjaws and other people who aren't raving about this card. Its way too expensive to run a set of these and lightning bolt, just so you can have 8 bolts? You might as well just use a spike, as already pointed out.
I have one only because of the premium deck and I must say it looks awesome, but honestly I would never buy this card for 10 bucks. My deck is not built to target my own creatures so without that this card is simply a sorcery speed bolt to me...
And Minus_prime, no one runs dispel, or any other countering spell that limits what you can counter from what I've seen because its too specific. It's all about counterspell, mana leak, hell, even cancel for those budget players.
Posted By:
wiseguy20
(10/30/2011 1:07:56 AM)
4 of these + 4 lightning bolts + 4 Lava Spikes = a mean burn deck
Posted By:
Zinn11
(11/10/2011 10:43:43 AM)
@limbrooke, you can't do that. You can copy it only once each time, so if you copy it again you'd have to choose to target another of your creatures or yourself, or your opponent. You can shoot your self/guys as many times as you have mana, but you only get to shoot your opponent once.
Stuffy Doll works because it puts the damage from the original and copies onto the opponent. You never change targets.
Posted By:
djflo
(1/11/2012 9:41:41 PM)
If you can find a way to make additional copies of a spell with no extra cost, such as Pyromancer Ascension and friends, it might be interesting to point one copy at yourself so that you can keep copying it more and more.
Posted By:
Totema
(4/6/2012 9:33:59 PM)