I know, I know, it would have been cool to see Lightning Bolt with Greek myth flavoring, but this is just one of those problems with Magic the Gathering.
Shock isn't strong enough, but adding 1 damage makes it too strong at 
. Adding for that 1 extra damage creates a spell that isn't strong enough.
We see the same thing with Counterspell, which is too strong at 
, but then Cancel, at 1 mana more, is hardly playable.
Balance is a tricky subject, guys :/
I'm happy to see this, and I'll be picking them right up in limited.
Posted By:
StreamHopper
(9/18/2013 1:41:32 PM)
Searing Strike or Lightning Spear?
Posted By:
Purplerooster
(9/18/2013 9:07:28 PM)
This is embarrassing when searing spear literally exists, flavor be damned.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(9/18/2013 5:50:47 AM)
Somewhere between Lightning bolt, Shock, and incinerate they are gonna get that popular burn spell balanced and perfect. Not yet though. I don't like this.
Posted By:
XTwistedsoulX
(9/17/2013 4:43:22 PM)
Uh I hate function reprints, they should have changed it up abit, like increased it to 4 damage, at 2r with sorcery speed and an uncommon.
Posted By:
IamjustnotCreative
(9/18/2013 5:22:56 PM)
@ XTwistedsoulx:
Master Bolt {1}{R}
Sorcery- Mythic Rare
Master Bolt deals 4 damage to target creature or player.
Scry 5.
"There's a reason nobody flies ornithopters on Theros" -- Seaweed Brain, son of Neptune
There, I fixed it. :P ^_^
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(9/19/2013 7:18:30 PM)
Was it that hard for them to just reprint Lightning Bolt, like literally everybody who plays Magic wanted them to?
Posted By:
James_Kernaghan
(9/18/2013 12:07:12 AM)
Lightning Bolt blows, as does any card that you practically can't not play if you're in that color. Way too powerful.
Posted By:
LordOfTheFlies87
(9/18/2013 11:13:54 AM)
I rate this half a star not because it is worth half a star, but because this card makes me seethe more than any other spell in Theros. Did we need a functional reprint of Searing Spear when that card had just as much, if not more, flavor than Lightning Strike does? They seem to have no problem slapping on 'Scry 1' to every spell in this set and pretending its a brand new card. Why couldn't they do that with this card and possibly make it playable outside of a very slow, removal-wanting Limited?
Posted By:
Eternal_Blue
(9/20/2013 10:17:52 PM)
Man, Keranos is such a noob! He doesn't even know how to conjure a proper Lightning Bolt!
Posted By:
Tiggurix
(9/22/2013 3:57:04 PM)