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• Thunderbolt deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Thunderbolt deals 4 damage to target creature with flying.
"Most wizards consider a thunderbolt to be a proper retort." —Ertai, wizard adept
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Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Thunderbolt (main or sideboard): 2,950 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 0.0%
- +0.0 ppflat over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 0.0%
- +0.0 pp
- Lists · 90d
- 1
- 100% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 4.0
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Sligh / Burn0% of lists · 1
Printings (4)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
