Twin Bolt

Two damage for two mana is below the burn curve, but the division clause is what the card is actually selling: split it one-and-one to clear two X/1 tokens with a single card, or pile both onto a two-toughness creature when one body is the problem. That flexibility is the trade Arc Lightning made first, fanning three damage across up to three targets; Twin Bolt sits a notch below on raw output while keeping the same shape. The split is locked in on announcement, before priority passes back, which matters both ways: an opponent cannot fizzle the whole spell, but if you divide it and they sacrifice one of your two targets in response, the damage assigned to that now-illegal creature is simply wasted, and only the surviving target takes its share. Committing to a one-and-one split against a graveyard-hungry deck is a real risk, not a free two-for-one. Against a clean two-toughness target the card reads like a slow Shock, but read it as removal that scales with how many small threats are in front of you and the rate makes sense. This is the workhorse template for divided red removal in environments where Lightning Bolt and Lightning Helix are too strong to print: enough reach to answer the tokens-and-aggression strategies a format's burn suite is meant to police, priced high enough that it never threatens to be the best spell in the room.