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Siphon Insight

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Siphon Insight, Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander printing
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander OTC · No. 242 2024-04-19

Card text

{U}{B}
Instant
Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Flashback {1}{U}{B}
Keywords: Flashback
EDHREC rank #4435 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 7 printings

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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

10 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

You don't have to disclose which card you exiled and which card you put on the bottom of the library. For example, if your opponent knows what the top card of their library is and you cast Siphon Insight, you don't have to tell them where you put that card.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

You may play the card even if it is a land.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

You must still follow all normal timing rules to play a card exiled with Siphon Insight.

2021-09-24 · Wizards of the Coast

Only you get to look at the exiled card. Its owner doesn't get to know what it is while it is in exile unless you tell them.

2021-09-24 · 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

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

"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

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

All printings

Siphon Insight, Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander printing
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
OTC · #242
Rare
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Boreal Gaming & Cards
Siphon Insight, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
PMID · #241p
Rare
∅ No QC price
Siphon Insight, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos printing
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
PMID · #241s
Rare
∅ No QC price