What is Flashback in MTG?

There is a concept in Magic: The Gathering That's called card value where you essentially want each of your cards to wipe out as many of your opponent's cards as possible. Trying to trade a card (one-to-one trade) for one of your opponents is considered as a basic value, but there are keywords that can help to add a measure in your favor.

One of those keywords is Flashback, which allows you to replay cards directly from your graveyard for a certain cost. As most cards end up in your graveyard, this allows any card with a flashback to be played twice. Here's everything you need to know about flashbacks.

How Flashback Works

Flashback is an active ability keyword found in Instants and Sorcerers This allows you to cast that spell directly from your graveyard. Afterward, the spell is exiled, preventing you from constantly casting cards over and over again.

equal to Flashback for permanent cards It is called Find out.

Introduced during the Odyssey block, it was initially marked by a small headstone Next to the card name as a visual aid, but that has been retired. Flashback Time works like its spell typeSo a spell with flashback can only be played when you can normally play a tone.

Cards with flashbacks have the keyword 'flashback' written next to their cost–Usually a mana cost is different from the casting cost of the card themselves, but not always. Flashback costs can range from mana in alternate colors to the casting cost of a card to paying life, tapping or sacrificing creatures, or sacrificing other permanents.

The flashback cost is usually greater than the initial casting cost of the spell, but not necessarily. Some cards with flashbacks will actually be cheaper to 'cast' from the graveyard Rather than throwing it out of your hands.

How to make the most of flashbacks

A flashback A useful thing to have in almost any deck Because it provides you with something inherently useful: value. Once a card with flashback is cast from your hand, it remains in your graveyard ready to be played again after you pay the flashback cost.

However, many deck strategies exploit Flashback's ability to play directly from your graveyard. Any strategy that puts cards in your graveyardWhether it's mill, dredge, delve, discard, or directly put cards into your graveyard with the intention of playing them later, it will. Benefit from cards with flashbacks.

Unlike many mantras, Instants and enchantments with flashbacks are no longer unavailable after entering your graveyard-They only gain a different casting cost and are banished after they resolve.

A great strategy in green and black for exploiting flashbacks Include spells with flashbacks to the deck trying to fill your graveyard To revive creatures. Cards like Grisly Salvage or Satyr Wayfinder will put you cards in your graveyard, and if those cards have Flashback, it's almost as if you put them in your hand.

Another great strategy Discard the cards with the flashback. Not only do Faithless Looting and Desperate Ravings discard more cards that you might potentially Flashback, but they themselves have Flashback to play your graveyard again to fill Flashback cards.

You can too Take advantage of flashbacks on cards that don't have a keyword. Cards like Snapcaster Mage, Dralnu, Lich Lord, and Return to Past grant instants and enchantments in a flashback to your graveyard, allowing you to play them again.

Great cards with flashbacks

Flashbacks have been in Magic: The Gathering for many years, About 200 cards mention the keyword. We can't go into every card with Flashback, but we can mention a few standouts.

Draw more with flashbacks

Flashbacks are a great way to give yourself more cards. Basically, a spell that tells you to draw cards is one-and-done, but like cards Deep analysis and Think twice Drawing from when your hands are dry can give you a two-time good.

If it's draw and discard that you want, Faithless robbery and Desperate Ravings As already mentioned, however Trusted improvement It deserves a mention for adding some vitality to the mix. Ignite the future Also worth mentioning as it provides a more powerful effect as if the flashback cost had been paid Growing ambitions.

for two (or more)

Using one card to kill another is fine, but using one card to kill two cards is more efficient. Like cards Ancient anger, Ruin and reconstruction, A ray of lightand Chainer's command Great for getting two cards for the price of one.

divine reckoning Could potentially hit even more cards, albeit at your own expense.

Recycle, reuse, regenerate

Reanimation is a common strategy to combine with flashback cards. Can't stay away, funeral rites, Fear returns, Visions of fear, Wake up to the slaughterand Recapture of Sevinne Other cards can be brought out of your graveyard if they find themselves in it.

Create more creatures

Why make one creature when you can make two? wormhole, Visions of glory, Roar of the Wurm, Increasing devotionand Squirrel shit Produces more creature tokens than a normal spell would provide.

Other flashback cards

There are many flashback cards that don't fit a typical pattern. Galvanic repulsion and escalating vengeance Copy both spells or effects to increase your efficiency. Prismatic strands and Moments of peace Many tactics can stop them in their tracks. Seize the day Puts you in disgrace, and Cabal therapy Famous for providing a sacrificial outlet on top of the discard.

Cards that provide flashbacks

No card with Flashback? No problem. Check it out Snapcaster Mage, False, Drowned Disciple, Katilda and Lier, Dralnu, the Lich Lord, A fugitive doctorand Return to the past All can grant instants and enchantments to your graveyard flashback.