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    Siphon Insight

    Illustrated by Livia Prima

    EDHREC Rank #4,455
    Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Flashback 1 generic mana blue mana black mana

    Rulings (10)

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

    Jun 6, 2025

    "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell 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."

    Jun 6, 2025

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

    Jun 6, 2025

    Legality

    Formats by platform

    Commander

    Competitive

    Digital

    Community & retro

    Prints (8)

    Siphon Insight — Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
    OTC#242$0.37
    Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
    Siphon Insight — Magic Online Promos
    PRM#94066—
    Magic Online Promos