Card text
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a charge counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this artifact has five or more charge counters on it, remove all of them from it and create that many 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
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Mana cost
{3}
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Card text
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a charge counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this artifact has five or more charge counters on it, remove all of them from it and create that many 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Lightning Coils
Lightning Coils (198) is an Artifact from Mirrodin (MRD). It costs {3} and has mana value 3. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander and 1 more format.
Mirrodin is a main expansion, released October 2003.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this artifact has five or more charge counters on it, remove all of them from it and create that many 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
Card details
- Card number
- 198
- Set
- Mirrodin (MRD)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 3 October 2003
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Artifact
- Colour
- Colourless
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Lightning Coils
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