
Lightning Surge
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Judgment (JUD)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 96
Oracle Text
Lightning Surge deals 4 damage to any target. Threshold — If there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, instead Lightning Surge deals 6 damage to that permanent or player and the damage can't be prevented. Flashback {5}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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Card Rulings
- March 19, 2021
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
Source: wotc - April 15, 2013
At the time this spell is resolving, it is on the stack and not in the graveyard. This means that you should not count this card when determining whether the Threshold effect occurs.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
It either deals 4 damage or 6 damage. It does not deal 10 damage.
Source: wotc
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