Hey Call to Mind, do you mind if I totally replace you? K, thanks.
lorendorky
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
I'm liking the flavor of a Red mage carrying around books just to burn them in a stack of Faithless Looting just to use the red flashback.
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
Dear Wizards: Thank God This Is Not An Instant. Signed-- the Living
Dear Wizards: Making it a Sorcery won't stop us from breaking it, you know. Increasing Vengeance. Signed- the Johnnies.
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Well, aside from Faithless Looting this is the only toy they gave UR Delver, and it kind of sucks. Ugh.
Lyoncet
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I was positive they'd make this card (although I was expecting it to grant flashback, that runs too much into Snapcaster Mage's territory). Problem is, I thought they'd make it cost 1 less on each cast, or make it an instant. If they'd have done either of those things, it could have gone a long ways towards encouraging the blue self-mill style of play. Snapcaster sort of does that. Problem is, if he's in your yard and not your hand, he can't help you. With this, you want to mill it away so you can take your pick of whatever juicy spells you may want.
But unfortunately it's expensive and clunky, meaning it probably won't see play.
ZEvilMustache
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
"I cast Mystic Retrieval targeting my otherMystic Retrieval. Get comfy kids, this could take a while." Who cares if there will never be enough mana to make it happen...
Splizer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
...can it return itself to your hand? And will it then exile itself if you can? If not, then I guess with Secrets Of The Dead you have a "2R: Draw a card". Huh.
djflo
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Great intersection between the colours to design this card out of. The only thing is, it doesn't synergise with Burning Vengeance as much as it might seem, because you're presumably playing with a whole lot of flashback cards which have a lot more value in the graveyard than normal, reducing the value of this card. Tho its flashback will still trigger it and Secrets of the Dead.
Edit - this card is quite similar to Recoup; probably better becuase you can recur the cards and play them seperately, rather than needing all the mana at once.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Card advantage! Yay! I can see this being used with Cackling Counterpart, so it flashbacks three times instead of only one.
Amnesigenic
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This with either another copy of itself or with Runic Repetition allows you to juggle spells for as long as your mana will reach. I NEED TO BREAK THIS.
htgtmd
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Too bad it can't get Enchantments too.
franconbean
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Makes your Removal go much further in limited and thus is a notbad card. My opponent scooped before lethal when i used the same brimstone 3 times over 4 turns.
This to return my Blessings of Nature (used with miracle) back to my hand after I used it to boost my chrs using Wild Defiance. only to play Blessings again later on.. I could see ppl crying at the beat down that would draw. You could even use the alchemist refuge to make your blessings, or mystic retrieval into flash, on your opponents turn! very sweet card.. Just need to build a deck that can make use of it.
Runic Repitition, Talrand, Sky Summoner, Arcane Melee and this. Congratulations, you now have : make three 2/2 drakes with flying and return target instant or sorcery to your hand. Proceed to go, collect $200, and repeat as long as you have mana.
However, you simply CAN'T do it at instant speed, since that would be broken
MysticSoldier5
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I can see this card doing well in an Izzet deck with the guild's "instant/sorcery matters" theme, better than Izzet Chronarch or Nucklavee, even. Not only can it potentially recover an instant or sorcery card twice, it's a sorcery itself.
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I found the weirdest use for this recently - ran it in a Red/Black Madness deck. Nothing like pitching it to give a Trespasser il-Vec shadow and then using the flashback to bring back a Dark Withering for removal or Call to the Netherworld to get a creature. In that respect it can provide some remarkable utility.
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Signed-- the Living
Dear Wizards: Making it a Sorcery won't stop us from breaking it, you know.
Increasing Vengeance.
Signed- the Johnnies.
But unfortunately it's expensive and clunky, meaning it probably won't see play.
Edit - this card is quite similar to Recoup; probably better becuase you can recur the cards and play them seperately, rather than needing all the mana at once.
Add in Secrets of the Dead and Burning Vengeance, and you have that PLUS draw a card and a shock.
However, you simply CAN'T do it at instant speed, since that would be broken
Now add some Goblin Electromancer for added spice...