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The higher life total and multiplayer aspects mean that games not only go longer but also offer a wide variety of ways to interact with your opponents

For Black-Red Pirates, Lightning Strike makes a triumphant return to Standard as solid removal and a way to end games even faster

Where does that leave us

It's most often played in decks that can ramp into it quickly, most notably Eldrazi Breach decks in Modern, and pops up in niche Sneak and Show builds in Legacy

That covers creatures, of course, but also Food, Treasures, Clues, and all the other artifact tokens that have made themselves at home in recent Magic

It doesn't effect the board at all, it gets rid of your opponent's worst card, if they even have any, and it's honestly kind of hard to cast from your hand, let alone when you escape it