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Magic: The Gathering · Shadows of the Past · Mythic

Snapcaster Mage

Creature — Human Wizard

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Market price

11

Public decks

Snapcaster Mage
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Rules Text

FlashWhen 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.)

Card Facts

Mana value
2
Power / Toughness
2 / 1
Colors
Color identity
EDHREC rank
#1,439
Keywords
Flash
Rarity

Legality

Brawl

Legal

Commander

Legal

Competitive Brawl

Legal

Duel Commander

Legal

Gladiator

Legal

Historic

Legal

Legacy

Legal

Modern

Legal

Oathbreaker

Legal

Timeless

Legal

TLR

Legal

Vintage

Legal

Alchemy

Not legal

Future

Not legal

Old School

Not legal

Pauper

Not legal

Pauper Commander

Not legal

Penny Dreadful

Not legal

Pioneer

Not legal

PreDH

Not legal

Premodern

Not legal

Standard

Not legal

Standard Brawl

Not legal

Rulings

  1. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    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.

  2. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    "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."

  3. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

  4. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.

  5. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    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.

  6. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    If you cast an instant or sorcery with {X} in its mana cost this way, you still choose the value of X as part of casting the spell and pay that cost.

  7. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

  8. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    If a card with no mana cost gains flashback, it has no flashback cost. It can't be cast this way.

  9. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.

  10. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    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.

  11. Jun 6, 2025 · Wizards of the Coast

    If 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.

Printings

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12 printings
Final Fantasy Commander
Final Fantasy CommanderFIC · $142.63
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Modern Masters 2017MM3 · $18.22
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InnistradISD · $14.48
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Pro Tour PromosPPRO · $39.48
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Community

Decks using this card

11 public decks run Snapcaster Mage; here are the 8 most recently updated.


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LegacyCube-wotc

GN
gnarESC14 hours ago
400
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JO
Jopauper14 hours ago
1000
MTGCommander

Air Slangin’

SY
Syther8407 days ago
1100
MTGCommander

brucav

Elspeth57
Elspeth572 months ago
400
MTGCommander

Drag Queen

SE
SeliSelo3 months ago
500
MTGCommander

tivit

VI
vikobo9 months ago
600
MTGCommander

Azula

LowKey
LowKey9 months ago
300
MTGCommander

Sephiroth Planets Heir

SH
ShadowMonarch9 months ago
300