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Forbidden Alchemy

{2}{U}

Instant

ISDInnistrad#55common
Foil
Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 4 per booster–1 in 904
Illustrator
David Rapoza
Found in
Innistrad Event Deck Deathfed · 2013 Core Set Event Deck Sweet Revenge · 5 more
Printings15
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback

Plays as: Library Manipulation

Market · per finishspark updated 9h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.06
$0.02 low$0.01 gap
Foil+0.0%
$0.46
$0.12 low$0.04 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.06· across 15 printings

Rulings

7 · latest Mar 19, 2021 · one tap opens all
  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    "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."

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    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.

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    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.

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

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

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    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.

  • WotCSep 22, 2011

    If you have fewer than four cards in your library, you'll look at all the cards there and put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.