Mystic Retrieval

Mystic Retrieval

{3}{U}Sorcery

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Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

What it does

Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Get it in a precon

Included in 2 preconstructed decks — cheapest sealed first.

Keyword reminders

Flashback. You may cast this from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. · CR 702.34 Read more →

Official rulings

  1. Mystic Retrieval can't target itself. It's on the stack when you choose its target. (2011-01-22)
  2. If 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. (2021-03-19)
  3. A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way. (2021-03-19)
  4. "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard 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." (2021-03-19)
  5. You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast. (2021-03-19)
  6. To 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. (2021-03-19)
  7. You 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. (2021-03-19)

Printings & prices

Every set Mystic Retrieval has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.

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