Forbidden Alchemy

Modern Masters 2017 (MM3) #38 · Common · Instant

Mana cost: {2}{U}

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Illustrated by David Rapoza · Released March 17, 2017

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.03 USD (12.5%) to $0.21 USD; low $0.21 USD, high $0.24 USD.

Printings

  1. Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #152 (TDC) · Common · 2025 · $0.27 USD
  2. Innistrad Remastered #355 (INR) · Uncommon · 2025 · $0.25 USD
  3. Innistrad Remastered #65 (INR) · Uncommon · 2025 · $0.21 USD
  4. Ravnica: Clue Edition #86 (CLU) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.15 USD
  5. Tales of Middle-earth Commander #191 (LTC) · Common · 2023 · $0.28 USD
  6. Shadows of the Past #15 (SIS) · Common · 2023
  7. Double Masters 2022 #49 (2X2) · Common · 2022 · $0.28 USD
  8. Forgotten Realms Commander #84 (AFC) · Uncommon · 2021 · $0.18 USD
  9. The List #MM3-38 (PLST) · Common · 2019 · $0.37 USD
  10. Ultimate Masters #56 (UMA) · Uncommon · 2018 · $0.27 USD
  11. Modern Masters 2017 #38 (this printing) · Common · 2017 · $0.21 USD
  12. Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed #43 (DDQ) · Common · 2016 · $0.07 USD
  13. Magic Online Promos #45203 (PRM) · Common · 2013
  14. Friday Night Magic 2012 #7 (F12) · Rare · 2012 · $0.61 USD foil
  15. Innistrad #55 (ISD) · Common · 2011 · $0.07 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2011-09-22 · wotc — If you have fewer than four cards in your library, you'll look at all the cards there and put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
  2. 2021-03-19 · wotc — You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  3. 2021-03-19 · wotc — "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."
  4. 2021-03-19 · wotc — 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.
  5. 2021-03-19 · wotc — 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. 2021-03-19 · wotc — A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  7. 2021-03-19 · wotc — 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.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Sauron, Lord of the Rings · in 57% of 35 decks
  2. Teval, the Balanced Scale · in 14% of 49 decks
  3. Sauron, the Dark Lord · in 10% of 50 decks

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