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Art by Vance Kovacs
Vance Kovacs

Branching Bolt

Shards of Alara #158
Common Non-foil Traditional foil EN

Released · Illustrated by Vance Kovacs

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Not in a preconstructed deck (collector booster or promo printing).

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What is this worth

Non-foil

$0.20 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.35 as of 2026-10-15
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.03 as of 2026-10-16
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-15
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.20 as of 2026-10-16
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.01 as of 2026-10-13

Traditional foil

$0.25 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-10-15
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.46 as of 2026-10-16
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.25 as of 2026-10-15
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.25 as of 2026-10-16
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.10 as of 2026-10-15

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Price history

Foil

7 d 0.0% 30 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 16 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

Non-foil

7 d +5.3% 30 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 16 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

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Oracle text

Choose one or both —
• Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature with flying.
• Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature without flying.

Legalities

Legal Not legal

Standard
Pioneer
Modern
Legacy
Vintage
Pauper
Premodern
Old School
Future
Commander
Duel Commander
Oathbreaker
Pauper Commander
PreDH
Brawl
Standard Brawl
Historic
Timeless
Alchemy
Gladiator
Penny Dreadful
tlr
competitivebrawl

Identifiers and data

Scryfall id
e7468876-f401-4a75-81c0-bed09cdda3e1
Oracle id
13f63b98-40b0-499b-bb5d-640b95a6ea1c
Illustration id
aa553e5f-0776-4e67-86b4-33eb4e77a2c7
Card back id
0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
Multiverse ids
177602
MTGO id
31339
TCGplayer id
27623
Cardmarket id
19718
MTGJSON uuid
28f377fe-a392-5784-adca-d540adc7bc75
Card Kingdom id
125712
Cardsphere id
42278
Set code
ALA
Collector number
158
Layout
normal
Frame
2003
Border
black
Booster
Yes
Games
paper, mtgo
Story spotlight
No
Reserved list
No
EDHREC rank
25154
Penny rank
15592

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