Lightning Rift

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Lightning Rift: Enchantment, Dominaria Remastered. Whenever a player cycles a card, you may pay 1. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{R}
Mana value
2
Type
Enchantment
Colour identity
Red (R)
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
Released
2023-01-13
Collector number
129
Artist
Eric Peterson
Commander rank
17,626 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Lightning Rift

Lightning Rift is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon red enchantment from Dominaria Remastered (DMR), a Masters set released in January 2023. It is collector number 129 in that set, with art by Eric Peterson. It costs {1}{R} (one generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Onslaught (2002) to Dominaria Remastered (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.20 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Whenever a player cycles a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

Options will cost you, but a lack of them will cost you even more.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.20 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Lightning Rift by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PremodernLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PreDHLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Lightning Rift

Lightning Rift has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Commander 2020 (C20) #155Uncommon2020
Vintage Masters (VMA) #178Uncommon2014
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #32571Uncommon2013
Friday Night Magic 2004 (F04) #5Rare2004
Onslaught (ONS) #217Uncommon2002

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Lightning Rift.

  • You choose the target when Lightning Rift’s ability is put on the stack, but you choose whether to pay the mana as the ability resolves. Once you make that choice, no player may take actions until the damage is dealt and the ability has finished resolving.

Similar cards

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In these precons

Lightning Rift is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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