Comments on: yeah Yeah YEAH… Lightning Bolt

By: Five With Flores » You Make the Play - Trusting Your Celestial Colonnade

Five With Flores » You Make the Play - Trusting Your Celestial Colonnade — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:48:03 +0000

[...] 4 Lightning Bolt [...]

By: thesage

thesage — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:04:16 +0000

Don’t extended burn decks lose Sulfuric Vortex in the rotation? I was under the impression that it was a pretty important card for that archetype.

By: MTGBattlefield

MTGBattlefield — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:45:51 +0000

yeah Yeah YEAH… Lightning Bolt…

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By: KZipple

KZipple — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:57:00 +0000

Obviously this helps BDW, but I feel like the loss of fetchlands means that deck loses a lot of vig. It seems so much stronger when everyone starts on 17. I don’t know how many shocklands there will be…might still be okay. Extended should be interesting though. I think its interesting that people keep talking about Bolt in control decks. Isn’t Vivid Creek leaving like three months after this comes out?

By: JedDavies

JedDavies — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:10:52 +0000

I am excited about combining Lightning Bolt with Swans of Bryn Argoll. Who doesn’t want an early game bolt that is a mid-late Ancestral Recall?

By: kryogen76

kryogen76 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:21:08 +0000

Lightning Bolt, Bloodbraid Elf - I’d like you to meet Harm’s Way. You two kids have fun, k?

By: l_neiman

l_neiman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:50:54 +0000

Come on, the GP Philly deck wasn’t THAT bad; it just wasn’t the best deck to run. I started 4-0 before the wheels came off, :-(.

Luis

By: ProdigalT

ProdigalT — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:12:35 +0000

I’m fine with Bolt back in Standard. Creatures were getting absurdly good, so removal had to jack up to match, and the flavor text is deliciously clever. I’m OK with Ball Lightning too. It was never really overpowered - it was just all that other stuff that was around - Fireblast, Lava Hounds, Jackal Pup.

But I’m concerned about Extended. The Bolt deck (Burn Deck Wins) was already very strong and winning PTQ’s and it just got tons better. BDW was already playing the janky Spark Elemental for a sorcery-speed blockable Lightning Bolt, and now they have the real deal. If they can work it, they can have Ball Lightning too. The deck lost exactly one card in the rotation: Barbarian Ring, which was hardly the cornerstone of the deck. Everyone else lost fetch lands, yet BDW was one of the very few decks that didn’t run them. Unless there’s some very powerful hoser coming soon, I don’t see how Burn isn’t the de facto best deck.