Increasing Ambition
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Shadows of the Past #32 (rare)
Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle.
Flashback {7}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Increasing Ambition has 2 printings, first in Dark Ascension (2012). EDHREC ranks it #9,518 among Commander cards. It appears most in Witherbloom, the Balancer decks (2,487 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Increasing Ambition most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Witherbloom, the Balancer: 2,487 decks
- Rowan, Scion of War: 1,394 decks
- Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief: 34 decks
- Dralnu, Lich Lord: 25 decks
- Maga, Traitor to Mortals: 17 decks
- Ellie, Vengeful Hunter: 1 decks
- Splinter, the Mentor: 1 decks
- Green Goblin, Back for More: 1 decks
Often played with Increasing Ambition
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : "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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.