Is Flashback a sorcery?
Flashback is a graveyard mechanic that you’ll find on instant and sorcery cards. So, if the card is a sorcery, you may only cast it for its flashback cost anytime you could normally cast a sorcery. After you cast a spell by paying its flashback cost, it gets exiled rather than going back to the graveyard.
What is a sorcery spell?
Sorcery. A sorcery represents a magical incantation. You can cast a sorcery only during a main phase of one of your own turns. You can’t cast it when another spell is on the stack.
What happens if you counter a flashback spell?
Countering a spell normally sends it to the graveyard (or, in some cases, exile, its owner’s hand, or their library), but the flashback ability makes it go to exile instead.
Is sorcery a permanent?
A sorcery is not a permanent. See rule 307, “Sorceries.” 307.1. A player who has priority may cast a sorcery card from their hand during a main phase of their turn when the stack is empty.
Can flashback be cast as instant?
Flashback is just an extra permission to cast the spell, it doesn’t change the normal timing required to cast the spell it’s on. So, if it’s a sorcery, you can cast it when you’d normally be able to cast a sorcery and, if it’s an instant you can cast it when you’d normally be able to cast an instant.
How does madness work in MTG?
Madness works no matter when or why you’re discarding the card. After that, playing a card with madness is just like playing an instant from your hand, except you pay the spell’s madness cost instead of its mana cost. It goes on the stack like any other spell and it can be countered like any other spell.
Are token creatures permanents?
Tokens are permanents. Tokens, being permanents, are affected by Devastation Tide. Each token leaves the battlefield. State-based actions are checked and each token ceases to exist.
Is Flashback an additional cost?
Rules Advisor You still have to pay additional costs for instants and sorceries that have been granted flashback. If you cast Snapcaster Mage and give flashback to a Shrapnel Blast in your graveyard, you have to sacrifice an artifact in addition to paying the flashback cost.
When was flash introduced in Magic The Gathering?
Introduced as a keyword to Magic: The Gathering in 2006 with the Time Spiral expansion, Flash is a mechanic that doesn’t take long to understand. Cards with Flash are ones that can be cast “any time you could cast an instant,” but there’s an important reason why those cards aren’t simply referred to as Instants.
What do you do with a flashback gatherer card?
: 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.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
How does a flashback spell work in RuneScape?
It is a static ability that appears on some instant and sorcery cards. A spell with flashback may be cast from your graveyard for an alternate cost at any time you could normally cast the spell. If a card is spelt this way it is exiled as the spell resolves.
Do you have to cast a sorcery with flashback?
You must still follow any timing restrictions, including those based on the card’s type. You can only cast a sorcery using flashback when you could normally cast a sorcery. Likewise, when an instant (with flashback) is sent to the graveyard, that player may cast it from the graveyard once more during their opponent’s turn.