Siphon Insight

Printings

  • Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL)#241
  • Breaking News (OTP)#54
  • Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)#242
  • Magic Online Promos (PRM)#94066
  • Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID)#241p
  • Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)#375
  • Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID)#241s
  • Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)#241

Siphon Insight

Card Information

Type: Instant

Mana Cost: Blue manaBlack mana

CMC: 2

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for BMana symbol for U

Set: Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL)

Rarity: Rare

Collector Number: 241

Oracle Text

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

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Legal)
penny(Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Card Rulings

  1. September 24, 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.

    Source: wotc
  2. September 24, 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.

    Source: wotc
  3. September 24, 2021

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

    Source: wotc
  4. September 24, 2021

    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.

    Source: wotc
  5. September 24, 2021

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

    Source: wotc
  6. September 24, 2021

    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.

    Source: wotc
  7. September 24, 2021

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

    Source: wotc
  8. September 24, 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.

    Source: wotc
  9. September 24, 2021

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

    Source: wotc
  10. September 24, 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."

    Source: wotc

Price History

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