Burn

Single-target damage spells that double as creature kill and reach to close out games, including Lightning Bolt, Shock, Chain Lightning, and Lightning Helix. These cards deal a fixed or scaling amount of damage; small creatures die, players lose life, and spells whose targeting line reads "any target" can also point at planeswalkers. Distinct from removal.spot_removal, which destroys or exiles a creature outright regardless of toughness, and from removal.board_wipe like sweeping damage to every creature, which lives with the mass answers rather than here. Also separate from creature-based damage triggers, since burn here means an instant or sorcery whose primary mode is dealing damage.