Flash Photography

The clever part is not the copy effect: blue has been cloning permanents since Clone. It is the conditional flash rider. The spell reads as sorcery-speed by default, but the moment it targets something you already control, the timing window snaps open to instant speed. That single clause turns a stodgy value spell into a combat trick and a blink-adjacent instant-speed threat: copy a creature to re-trigger its enters-the-battlefield ability in response to a wrath, duplicate a freshly-tapped mana rock at end of turn, or copy an attacker after blocks are declared. The restriction is doing precise work here. Copying an opponent's permanent stays honest and slow, locked to your main phase; copying your own is where the speed lives, because you are only ever reacting to your own board. Flashback then answers the copy spell's one structural weakness, which is that it does nothing once it has resolved. Casting it a second time from the graveyard means the flash rider comes back too, so the same permanent (or a better one that has since appeared) can be duplicated again at the exact moment it matters. It is a copy spell built as a two-shot reactive engine, with the instant-speed window gated behind the one condition where reactive cloning is fair.