This card is pretty fun - you can include it in your deck if only to put another island into play on your first turn.
Mode
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
It's not actually mana accel, but it can save you a good bit nontheless. And as Lege said, this card can also help on the first turn if it's your opening hand since it can serve as a single-use Exploration when needed if you're running basic lands.
lukemol
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This would have been fun the other night when I had 3 Ulamog's Crushers sitting in my hand....Once I got one of them into play, that is.
high_tide_niv
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
retraced image should go in every high tide deck
allmighty_abacus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
All right, on my fourth turn I'll sacrifice a seat of the synod to tinker out darksteel colossus, then I'll use retraced image to bring out the other one that's been sitting in my hand all this time. Your turn :3
SIlverSkyz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
What if you use it to put the artifact hate card Splinter into play beacuse it has the same name as a token made from Splintering Wind?
Atali
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Rule 307.4
"Sorceries can't enter the battlefield. If a sorcery would enter the battlefield, it remains in its previous zone instead."
So, you can retrace Splinter on a Splinter token, but all you end up doing is revealing the Splinter in your hand.
Tynansdtm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Combos with ____
agentvirgo
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Why, yes, I do believe I WILL play another Followed Footsteps.
DoragonShinzui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I can't believe no one has noticed that you can name Island and then drop it. This is first turn mana ramp. In blue.
MightyPox
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@DoragonShinzui: at least in a Legacy environment if you have access to one blue mana on your first turn you will almost always want to play a cantrip like Brainstorm or Ponder for deck filtering.
@high_tide_niv: this is also true for a Legacy High Tide deck. Nevertheless it is still playable in a High Tide deck when you are already in combo to get access to more untapped lands + to remove the lands from your deck when shuffeling your graveyard back with Time Spiral so it will be more likely to draw into cantrips/tutors/card drawers.
Slyfox7777777
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Definitely most useful for a turn one island ramp. other tactics seem too unreliable to make work properly. But with that said, it can pull off some very situational tricks with some fortune.
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And as Lege said, this card can also help on the first turn if it's your opening hand since it can serve as a single-use Exploration when needed if you're running basic lands.
"Sorceries can't enter the battlefield. If a sorcery would enter the battlefield, it remains in its previous zone instead."
So, you can retrace Splinter on a Splinter token, but all you end up doing is revealing the Splinter in your hand.
@high_tide_niv: this is also true for a Legacy High Tide deck. Nevertheless it is still playable in a High Tide deck when you are already in combo to get access to more untapped lands + to remove the lands from your deck when shuffeling your graveyard back with Time Spiral so it will be more likely to draw into cantrips/tutors/card drawers.