Snapcaster Mage
Creature — Human Wizard · 2/1
Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CommanderLegal
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
Selling Snapcaster Mage?
We pay 50% of a card's market value in cash, or 70% in store credit, for cards worth more than $1. For the cheapest printing of Snapcaster Mage, that's about $6.70 cash or $9.38 in credit.
All 10 printings and prices
| Set | # | Released | Nonfoil | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy Commander FIC | 469 | Dec 2025 | – | $144.28 |
| Innistrad Remastered INR | 478 | Jan 2025 | $16.97 | $32.41 |
| Secret Lair Drop SLD | 808 | May 2024 | $1,742.95 | – |
| Regional Championship Qualifiers 2023 PR23 | 2 | May 2023 | $41.34 | – |
| The List PLST | ISD-78 | Sep 2021 | $18.56 | – |
| Ultimate Masters UMA | 71 | Dec 2018 | $19.20 | $26.78 |
| Ultimate Box Topper PUMA | U5 | Dec 2018 | – | $49.22 |
| Modern Masters 2017 MM3 | 50 | Mar 2017 | $18.23 | $28.50 |
| Pro Tour Promos PPRO | 2016 | Jan 2016 | – | $39.48 |
| Innistrad ISD | 78 | Sep 2011 | $13.40 | $42.82 |
TCGplayer market, near mint, Oct 16, 2026.
Rulings
If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.
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.
If you cast a spell with flashback, you can't pay any alternative costs such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell with flashback.
If you cast an instant or sorcery with in its mana cost this way, you still choose the value of X as part of casting the spell and pay that cost.
If a card with no mana cost gains flashback, it has no flashback cost. It can't be cast this way.
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
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.
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 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."
If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.
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