Lightning, Army of One
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
First strike, trample, lifelink
Stagger — Whenever Lightning deals combat damage to a player, until your next turn, if a source would deal damage to that player or a permanent that player controls, it deals double that damage instead.
Combos with Lightning, Army of One
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Walking Ballista Unspeakable Symbol Collective Inferno Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-06-06
The damage is dealt by the same source as the original source of damage. The doubled damage isn't dealt by Lightning unless it was the original source of damage.
- 2025-06-06
If damage dealt by a source you control is being divided or assigned among multiple permanents and/or players, that damage is divided or assigned before doubling. For example, if you attack with a 5/5 creature with trample and it's blocked by a 2/2 creature, you can assign 2 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player. Those amounts are then doubled to 4 and 6, respectively.
- 2025-06-06
If another effect (or effects) modifies how much damage a source you control would deal—by preventing some of it, for example—the player being dealt damage or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage chooses the order in which any such effects (including Lightning's) apply. If all of the damage is prevented, Lightning's effect no longer applies.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Lightning, Army of One in the command zone.
Published decks
Decklists players have published with Lightning, Army of One in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.
- Army of One 0 games —
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Lightning, Army of One, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Ferrous Rokiric | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Boros 1 deck
Lightning, Army of One price history
The Final Fantasy #233 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | $10.50 | $12.53 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $9.84 | $12.71 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $9.81 | $12.89 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $9.07 | $12.76 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $9.02 | $12.61 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $8.86 | $13.10 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $8.81 | $12.99 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $9.00 | $13.11 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $9.27 | $13.02 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $9.44 | $13.00 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $9.59 | $13.00 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $9.59 | $13.02 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $9.80 | $13.02 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $9.74 | $12.71 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $10.49 | $13.16 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Lightning, Army of One
6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $10.50
- Foil
- $12.53
Promo
Final Fantasy Promos
- Foil
- $42.16
Inverted
- Normal
- $34.10
- Foil
- $67.34
Inverted
- Normal
- $25.36
- Foil
- $31.41
Extended Art
- Normal
- $19.89
- Foil
- $37.85
Inverted
- Foil
- $276.64
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lightning, Army of One. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
