Nearly every card in Time Spiral block was a throwback to at least one previously printed card.
This card references the card Flicker which introduced the 'flicker' or 'blinking' mechanic in white, secondarily in blue.
Posted By:
Missile_Penguin
(7/10/2013 9:35:24 AM)
I wondered why tokens couldn't come back to the battlefield with this card. I knew tokens cease existing outside the battlefield because of rule 704.5d. But that is a state-based action, and SBA's aren't checked during the resolution of an ability. But for those wanting to know, the rule that applies to this card for tokens is 110.5g.
Posted By:
Raja_of_Dune
(2/3/2012 9:57:00 AM)
With Mystic Snake on the battlefield, a playset of this card is functionally 8 Counterspells.
Posted By:
Cheezinator
(8/10/2011 6:40:14 PM)
You know a card's awesome when people start using its name to refer to its general effect. Sure, Flicker was the Ur-Example and Astral Slide was the first such effect to see tournament success, I've never heard people say anything other than "blinking" that Obzedat or AEtherling.
Posted By:
sweetgab
(12/14/2013 6:58:18 PM)
This card is a combo with creatures with enters-the-battlefield effects such as Viridian Shaman, leaves-the-battlefield effects such as Phyrexian Bloodstock, creatures with vanishing such as Waning Wurm, creatures with evoke such as Shriekmaw, creatures with unearth such as Hell's Thunder, creatures with morph such as Krosan Cloudscraper (yes, this does cause a face-down creature to be flipped face-up), noncreatures with morph such as Zoetic Cavern, creatures with echo such as Goblin Patrol (for whatever reason you'd want to pay the echo cost a second time), and for purposes of blocking and fizzling spells every other targetable creature in the game.
Posted By:
Zher0
(2/10/2010 4:55:18 AM)
Utterly insane with Mulldrifter.
Posted By:
chinkeeyong
(12/6/2010 1:20:21 AM)
Did someone say U/W allies? Hi-O!
4.5 stars
Posted By:
_X_
(10/28/2010 9:32:34 PM)
I hope this gets reprinted in Inninstrad. The few spoilers already show the return of flashback. This card is soooo coool!
Posted By:
blink182zombies
(8/3/2011 1:16:46 PM)
Perfect card for my blue/white morph deck. "Unmorph" huge creatures for free, or save them from dying. Then do it again from the graveyard later in the game.
Posted By:
LordLamneth
(7/24/2011 7:34:11 AM)
I wish they hadn't dropped flashback in Avacyn Restored. This would have been a perfect fit.
Posted By:
AvatarofBro
(6/11/2012 1:16:43 PM)