Lightning Runner

As of Aug 7, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Lightning Runner is $0.26 (DRC #103), and the most expensive is $2.30 (AER #90, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.32, up 6.7% over 7 days, up 33.3% over 30 days, up 60.0% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $0.87 (2024).

Lightning Runner has 4 tracked printings across 4 sets, in nonfoil, ripple foil and foil finishes, including prerelease treatments.

DRC #103

$0.26

CK $0.99 / $0.10 62%

MP $0.15 1341 avail

AER #90

$0.27 +4%

CK $0.99 / $0.25 7%

MP $0.15 215 avail

M3C #215

$0.32 +23%

CK $0.99 / $0.10 69%

MP $0.15 778 avail

M3C #215 Ripple Foil

$0.46 +77%

CK $1.49 / $0.45 2%

MP $0.45 8 avail

PAER #90s Prerelease Foil

$2.17 +735%

CK $3.99 / $2.00 8%

MP $1.30 6 avail

AER #90 Foil

$2.30 +785%

CK $1.99 / $0.60 74%

MP $0.91 18 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $2.00 cash for PAER #90s (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
• Jun 7, 2024 If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
• Jun 7, 2024 If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
• Jun 7, 2024 Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

Lightning Runner has been reprinted 6 times. The Modern Horizons 3 Commander reprint cut the price 82% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
DRC #103	2025-02-14	Mythic	Standard	$0.36	$0.23	$0.18	$0.15
M3C #215	2024-06-14	Mythic	Standard	$0.87	$0.32	$0.16	$0.29
M3C #215	2024-06-14	Mythic	Standard	—	—	—	—
PAER #90s	2017-01-20	Mythic	Prerelease	—	—	—	—
AER #90	2017-01-20	Mythic	Standard	—	—	—	—
AER #90	2017-01-20	Mythic	Standard	—	—	—	—

Lightning Runner is the #4,851 most-played card on EDHREC, down 112 places over the last 30 days.