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Quistis Trepe

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

The recursion here carries a rider most graveyard-cast effects skip: an explicit clause lets mana of any type pay for the target instant or sorcery you cast. That single clause collapses a color barrier, letting a blue-based deck reach into any graveyard, pull a color-intensive spell nobody could otherwise afford, and pay for it off whatever is already on the battlefield. The fixing is folded into the recursion instead of demanded as a separate step. The exile-if-it-would-hit-the-graveyard clause is the ledger that balances the borrow: the spell resolves once and is removed rather than returned, so this is one high-value cast, not an engine, and it happens to shut off an opponent's flashback and escape recasts by exiling the card outright. Note the wording carefully: the trigger targets an instant or sorcery card in a graveyard, not the graveyard itself, and it reads any graveyard, so a well-stocked opponent's yard is as valid a target as your own. Timing matters too. She has no flash, so she comes down at sorcery speed, and the enters trigger offers the cast as it resolves; there is no stored instant-speed permission to spend later. The 2/2 body frames the whole card correctly as a one-shot delivery mechanism, its ceiling set by the best instant or sorcery any player has discarded, milled, or already burned.

Quistis Trepe (fin)
FIN · #440uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $2.79
Foil: $25.01
Oracle Text

Rules text

Blue Magic — When Quistis Trepe enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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