Flash of Insight
- Mana cost
- {X}{1}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The List #JUD-40 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.42 USD
Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)
Flash of Insight has 2 printings, first in Judgment (2002). EDHREC ranks it #21,443 among Commander cards. It appears most in Neerdiv, Devious Diver decks (280 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Flash of Insight most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver: 280 decks
- Hisoka, Minamo Sensei: 10 decks
Often played with Flash of Insight
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- : "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."
- : You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- : 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.
- : A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- : 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.