Redirect Lightning is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
How it works : Redirect Lightning
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell or ability targets the same player or object multiple times, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell or ability targets multiple things, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning, even if all but one of those targets have become illegal.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You don't choose the new target for the spell or ability until Redirect Lightning resolves. You must change the target if possible. However, you can't change the target to an illegal target. If there are no legal targets to choose from, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target has somehow become illegal itself.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Venser, Fervent Forger + Confusion in the Ranks + Redirect Lightning
- 1Cast Venser by paying
plus commander tax if applicable. - 2When Venser enters, it triggers targeting any applicable target, and Confusion of the Ranks also triggers targeting a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Resolve the Confusion of the Ranks trigger, exchanging control of Venser and the targeted creature.
- 4Holding priority, cast Redirect Lightning by paying plus either or 5 life, changing the target of Venser's trigger to Venser.
- 5Resolve Venser's ability, creating two token copies of it with haste.
- 6Put all but one Venser token into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 7The Venser tokens' abilities each trigger, with one trigger targeting the nontoken Venser and the other ability targeting any valid target.
- 8Resolve the Venser ability not targeting Venser, creating two copies of the chosen permanent with haste.
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