Skip to content
← All sets and all cards

Galvanic Iteration

RedBlue

10 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Galvanic Iteration, Marvel Super Heroes Commander printing
Marvel Super Heroes Commander MSC · No. 184 2026-06-26

Card text

{U}{R}
Instant
When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Flashback {1}{U}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Keywords: Flashback
Thanks to time travel, Nathaniel Richards had many second chances to set things right.
EDHREC rank #3014 Rare Not on the Reserved List
Seen in store
Nobody lists it in Quebec right now.

Run a comparison: we query the stores live, it may have arrived this morning.

The 10 printings

All, with their prices ↓

Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

14 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

The copy that Galvanic Iteration's ability creates is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

Galvanic Iteration's ability will copy any instant or sorcery spell, not just one with targets.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

A copy is created even if the spell that caused Galvanic Iteration's ability to trigger has been countered by the time that ability resolves. The copy resolves before the original spell.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

If you resolve one Galvanic Iteration after another (or cast the same one with flashback), the second Galvanic Iteration will be copied. That copy and spell each resolve, creating two delayed triggered abilities. The next spell you cast after that will be copied twice. If that spell is also a Galvanic Iteration, the following spell will be copied three times, and so on.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

"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."

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Galvanic Iteration, Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander printing
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
OTC · #227
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Jeux 3 Dragons
Galvanic Iteration, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
MID · #224
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Face to Face Games · Condition LP
Galvanic Iteration, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
PMID · #224p
Rare
∅ No QC price
Galvanic Iteration, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
PMID · #224s
Rare
∅ No QC price