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Narrow application, but nice. I'm putting two of these in my Edric, Spymaster of Trest multiplayer rogue deck. They will be great for shuffling a few spent Notorious Throngs back into my tiny library late game, allowing for more extra turns to finish off any stragglers.
Also, very pretty!

I predict someone making a really wierd Inception deck with this card and Dream Twist.

I always like it when they make enemy colors match up together so cleanly. Never realized how often both colors do this effect.

As long as you splash {G}, this allows you to run just a single Laboratory Maniac in your self-mill combo deck! If that's what you're into, at least.

I actually really like this one. Seems a little like Momentary Blink in that the effect isn't awe-inspiring, but it's cheap, flexible, instant speed, and can be surprisingly useful - and it's a 2 cmc instant with flashback for off-color mana. Of course it's nowhere near as powerful as Momentary Blink (still sore we didn't get an Innistrad reprint, maybe Dark Ascension or "Roll" will bring it back), but the similarities remain. For disrupting your opponent, it's plenty powerful even with Nihil Spellbomb out there because usually if they're abusing their graveyard, they're trying to abuse a particular card. See a blue deck discarding creatures? Shuffle their Skaab Ruinators back into their deck.

Then of course there are cute little tricks you can pull by targeting your own cards, like the aforementioned Laboratory Maniac, or to avoid Surgical Extraction if that catches on. At the moment that seems like a far less practical use, but something to consider nevertheless.

Of course as a card that will most likely be used as a hate card, it's probably not maindeck material, but it could catch on if graveyard abuse or Flashback become powerful. For decks that can run it (especially {U}{G} decks), it has some benefits over Nihil Spellbomb in that it's not vulnerable to artifact hate and Tumble Magnet, and over Surgical Extraction which can't grab several different threats from the graveyard (just all versions of the same threat). Of course as hosers, those two will have their place as well.

I love the art...maybe because it was drawn by someone who's last name is "Maniak".
Or maybe not...

I wonder why a journey of memory starts at the butt.

Might play this in an Unglued Deck. Pay for it using City of Ass. Return 10th edition Might of Oaks to the libarary That's not the only thing going back up there.

If you have more than one, you can have it do it on itself and bring back two other cards.
It's a selective Quest for Ancient Secrets!

If you can splash green, this is an effective mill-blocker. Accidentally milled yourself to 2 cards with Mirror-Mad? Just pop a green and buy yourself 3 more turns. I mean, it doesn't fare too well against an actual mill deck, but if you've milled yourself just a bit too hard accidentally, it can buy you the time you need to finish the game.

I had a dream this card cost 5G and did the following: "Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It comes into the battlefield with Shroud. At the end of turn, shuffle that land into your library. Put two 1/1 Saproling tokens onto the battlefield. Draw 5 cards." The flashback cost was one blue mana. And yet people still weren't playing it. Alas, it doesn't do this.

Use Pull From Eternity or Runic Repetition to grab it from exile, then play it again to shuffle Pull/Runic right back in to make sure you've always got a way to recycle.

Reminds me of the album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater.
For that, 5/5.

For lack of Regrowth effects with flashback, Creeping Renaissance being the expensive exception, I'm happy to run a couple of these in my Red-Blue-Green Burning Vengeance casual deck to rebuy my namesake enchantments and Secrets of the Dead if they happen to get milled away by Dream Twist The deck runs enough card draw to eventually grab them in this way, and the cheap flashback cost is valuable beyond words considering the scenarios where I have 2 or more copies of my namesake enchantment in play.

I thought this was awful, then I saw you could pick any three cards in one graveyard. At instant speed.
Incredible tech if your meta is flooded by graveyard shenanigans and you're not running black or white.

I use it in my U/G self mill aggro to save myself, stop a frights combo or to make Surgical Extraction have an illegal target (saving the cards they were trying to remove from play). It's an essential card for me and I don't think my deck could survive without it.

I don't see this mentioned, but this is a great sideboard card against Zombies or anything else with significant amounts of Undying. In response to the Undying trigger, being able to shuffle 2 Geralf's Messengers and a Gravecrawler back into the library prevents 10 power on board and a loss of 4 life.. That's insane for 2 mana, with a 1 mana flashback.

Definitely an interesting card. Useful in blue to get back a few handy spells, and useful in green if they happen to mill it and some things you'd like. Odd, but I like it.

Plus, art is rather interesting, not entirely sure what's going on here, but I like it.

This seems to be the anti - Snapcaster Mage card. Just keep it in your hand until he comes out, then exile the card they try to flashback. Perfect.

You would be surprised how often forcing my opponents to shuffle their library and/or lose their intended graveyard cards at instant speed can really screw them up.

A Krosan Reclamation that can be pitched to Force of Will.

It appears that nearly every commenter on here is misunderstanding the ruling on this card. You can't force your opponent to shuffle cards into their deck because it says "UP to three cards." This is really only a card that is usable on yourself.

If she turns around this card becomes Mammary's Journey.

@lorendorky

If I'm not mistaken, the card says "up to three target cards," which would be declared by the one casting the spell, not the target player, resulting in a forced shuffle (if any cards are chosen at all).