First printed in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025)

All 4 prints

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos (PTDM) #127p, 2025
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos (PTDM) #127s, 2025
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) #127, 2025
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) #345, 2025

Tersa Lightshatter

Legendary Creature — Orc Wizard

Haste
When Tersa Lightshatter enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.
Whenever Tersa Lightshatter attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, exile a card at random from your graveyard. You may play that card this turn.

In the last 30 days 1.4% of Standard decks played it (20 of 1416). Most played in UR (unclassified). In the last 30 days 0.5% of Pioneer decks played it (2 of 408). Most played in Mono-Red Aggro.

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Tersa Lightshatter in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), Premier Draft	58.9%	+3.9	+4.3	12243
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), Sealed	60.2%	+2.9	+4.2	861

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Staple

Standard staples: main deck, 3% of decks (#156)
Red, Creatures, Card draw, Recursion
Duel Commander staples: main deck, 5% of decks (#468)
Red, Creatures, Card draw, Recursion

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Legal
Penny Dreadful Legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Standard Other periods →

In 20 of 1416 decks (1.4%).

Share of decks

1.4%

▼ 2.5 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

20 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.9

in the main deck

Win rate

58%

0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
UR (unclassified)	9.8%	2%
BRG (unclassified)	8.5%	3%
BR (unclassified)	2.8%	8%
WBR (unclassified)	1.7%	21%
Mono-Red (unclassified)	0.9%	46%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Burst Lightning	55%	3.3
Blood Crypt	50%	3.2
Starting Town	50%	1.6
Hired Claw	45%	10.6
Cool but Rude	40%	35.4
Marauding Mako	40%	35.4
Inti, Seneschal of the Sun	35%	33.0
Iron-Shield Elf	35%	31.0
Moonshadow	35%	23.6
Stingcaster Mage	35%	16.5

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Mono-Red deleon91 in Standard Championship Week Finals	6-2 75%
WBR Giox96 in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
Mono-Red deleon91 in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
WBR Bawer in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
Mono-Red deleon91 in Standard Challenge 32 Special	4-2 67%
UR ch4rm2nd0r in Standard Challenge 32 Special	3-3 50%
WBR Zonda in Standard Challenge 32 Special	3-3 50%
Mono-Red deleon91 in Standard Challenge 32 Special	3-3 50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
WBR Giox96, 26 Oct	2 main	#15 4-2
UR Arena ranked player, 26 Oct	2 main
BR Arena ranked player, 26 Oct	2 main
BR Nicolas Vérité, 24 Oct	2 main	#50
Mono-Red deleon91, 19 Oct	2 main	#11 4-2
BRG Arena ranked player, 19 Oct	1 main
WBR Bawer, 13 Oct	2 main	#13 4-2
WBR Arena ranked player, 12 Oct	2 main

Pioneer Other periods →

In 2 of 408 decks (0.5%).