Return the Past

Return the Past

Mana Cost: {4}{R}{R}

Type: Enchantment

Oracle Text:
During your turn, each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. Its flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Doctor Who

Price ( USD): $0.33

USD: $0.33 · EUR: €0.20

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Character Background

Return the Past reads like a time-traveling library: pay a high red price and you get to recast your spells as if yesterday never ended. It best supports a spellslinger/value or combo plan—think mid‑to‑late game engines that want repeated burn, card draw, and storm lines rather than pure aggro or permission control—because the enchantment is expensive (4RR) and only grants flashback on your turn. Build the deck around cheap, high‑impact instants and sorceries (lightning-style burn and cheap cantrips like Serum Visions/Opt) and include ways to stock your graveyard (discard outlets such as Faithless Looting or Cathartic Reunion, and draw-to-grave effects). Specific synergies: Young Pyromancer and ritual effects (Desperate Ritual) reward each extra cast and help convert those recasts into board presence or explosive mana for storm lines; stocking many one-mana spells maximizes value because flashback costs aren’t discounted, so you’ll want ways to generate extra mana and to cast multiple spells in a turn. Remember: it’s a turn‑bound engine, so plan sequencing accordingly.

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