Riddle of Lightning

Riddle of Lightning price & price history

What Riddle of Lightning costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

Choose any target. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player.

Type
Instant
Mana cost
{3}{R}{R}
Rarity
common
Latest printing
Time Spiral Remastered
First printed
2007-05-04
Commander legality
Legal

Riddle of Lightning price today

$0.08

€0.05

30 days +14.3%

as of 2026-10-05

All-time high
$0.12
All-time low
$0.02
1-year average
$0.07
Data since
2025-07-24

Riddle of Lightning has traded between $0.02 and $0.12, averaging $0.07 over the past year. It appears in 192 of the commander decks we track.

Riddle of Lightning in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
192

of 891,084 commander decks, 0.0%.

Median deck price
$211

most of those decks cost $48.88 to $655.

Median power level
4.4

runs 3.4 to 6.2 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Riddle of Lightning

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$52.46
price
4.9
power
2.5
salt
Bracket 1 (Exhibition)
{U}{R}midrange
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Typical build
$217
price
4.1
power
2.9
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{R}midrange
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High-end build
$655
price
6.2
power
4.2
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{B}{R}midrange
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