Tempest domain clerics get the following feature at 6th level:
Thunderous Strike. At 6th level, when you deal lightning damage to a Large or smaller creature, you can also push it up to 10 feet away from you.
I'm a bit confused as to how this is useful. As far as I can tell, there are no ways to deal lightning damage to enemies as a normal cleric and tempest clerics get a single spell from their class spell list that can do it, Call lightning. And while that is not a bad spell, it seems weird to have a class feature for a single spell.
So what are some other ways a pure tempest domain cleric could deal lightning damage? Any magic items? From the race? Something else?
Best Answer
Primarily, from their 1st level feature
The Tempest Cleric gets this feature at 1st level:
From being a Dragonborn
Dragonborn players get a breath weapon which can deal lightning damage if they choose Blue or Bronze as their draconic ancestry.
From magic items
There are various magic items that deal lightning damage. The ones usable by a pure Cleric at the time of writing this answer are:
From one other spell: Glyph of Warding
Glyph of Warding is a 3rd level spell on the Cleric's list that can be set to deal lightning damage when cast. Since it's a 'trap' spell (literally, not figuratively), it's unlikely you'll use Thunderous Strike on damage from this, as you might not even know when it's triggered - but you could if you did know.
Cheese time - this spell plus this feature allows unbounded damage on 1 turn given many hours of setup plus an arrogant foe
Glyph of warding lasts until dispelled - so you can cast as many as you have hours, 200gps worth of incense and diamonds, and 3rd level spell slots.
So:
This is unlikely to work, but is a fun consequence of Thunderous Strike not requiring a reaction.
Their options are indeed limited
Unfortunately, as you note, only Call Lightning and Wrath of the Storm (and Glyph of Warding) allow them to take advantage of their Thunderous Strike feature if a player doesn't want to be a Dragonborn and isn't getting lightning-based magic items from their DM.