Volcanic Hammer

Lightning Bolt with the instant clause amputated, and that surgery is the whole point. The Portal product stripped instant-speed interaction out of the box by design: every spell a new player cast would resolve on their own turn, with no stack tricks to confuse the lesson. So the format's burn got rebuilt at sorcery speed, and the same three damage that costs one mana at instant speed here costs two and waits for your main phase. The comparison is exact and instructive: it isolates how much of a burn spell's value lives in the timing rather than the number. Three damage to any target is a fine rate; three damage you can only deal on your own turn cannot ambush an attacker, cannot answer a flash threat, cannot be held up as a bluff. The same template recurs in the various sorcery-speed shocks Wizards prices a hair below their instant equivalents. The card stands as a clean record of a design philosophy: that the difference between a teaching tool and a tournament staple is sometimes nothing but the word "instant," and that removing it changes the spell's entire strategic axis even when the damage line stays identical.