MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #15

Forbidden Alchemy

DIGITAL ONLY

sis·#15·common·nonfoil

Illus. David Rapoza

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Mar '23

3 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #5,215 · Niche pick

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Instant

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.)

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 7

2021-03-19wotc

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.

2021-03-19wotc

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

2021-03-19wotc

"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."

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SIS — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #15 of *Shadows of the Past*, the set that shipped alongside the March 2023 Shadows of the Past release.

Card type: Instant, color identity black/blue, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {2}{U} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Flashback.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #5,215 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by David Rapoza. Rarix catalogs 266 other cards credited to this artist.