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Past in Flames

Sorcery3 generic manaRed mana

Flashback was the keyword that let the graveyard become a second hand, and this card turns it into a noun that applies to the whole yard at once. The trade it asks for is structural: where Yawgmoth's Will reanimated your spells for one explosive turn and cost you the world, this one grants flashback at each spell's own mana cost. The fuel exiles itself when flashed back, but this sorcery does not; cast it from hand and it falls into the yard like any other spell, which is exactly why the engine recurs. Its own flashback cost is the hinge. At 4 generic manaRed mana you can replay the recursion if a ritual chain leaves you flush, dipping back into a yard you have already half-emptied, which is what separates a fizzled turn from a lethal one. The shape of a storm turn falls out of this directly: seed the graveyard with cantrips and rituals early, jam this, and replay the pile from the bottom, generating mana and storm count off cards you already paid for once. The design lesson it taught was that graveyard-as-resource and storm-as-payoff are the same axis pointed two directions; one fills the yard, the other empties it for value, and a single sorcery can be the pivot between them. Every combo deck that has tried to loop instants and sorceries since has reckoned with the template this set: blanket flashback, original cost, mandatory exile on the fuel.

Past in Flames (sis)
SIS · #43mythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback 4 generic manaRed mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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