CREATURE — HUMAN WIZARD
Snapcaster Mage
Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
FORMATS
CommanderLEGAL
Brawl (Historic)STAPLE 9.5%
DraftINR#295/296DraftSIR#349/352StandardNOT LEGAL
ModernLEGAL
TAGS · 2
REMINDER TEXT · 1
- WOTC Official Reminder Textofficial rulesFlash — You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.
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Comments & Rulings · 11
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingIf a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingYou must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingIf you cast a spell with flashback, you can't pay any alternative costs such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell with flashback.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingIf you cast an instant or sorcery with in its mana cost this way, you still choose the value of X as part of casting the spell and pay that cost.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingIf a card with no mana cost gains flashback, it has no flashback cost. It can't be cast this way.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingYou can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingA spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingTo determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingIf a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official ruling"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
- Wizards of the Coast2025-06-06 · official rulingIf a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.