Dread Return (Time Spiral) - Gatherer

Dread Return

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 4.565 / 5 (115 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Dread Return

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Sorcery

Card Text:

Return target creature card from your graveyard to play.

Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

Flavor Text:

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Expansion:

Time Spiral

Rarity:

Uncommon

All Sets:

Card Number:

104

Artist:

Kev Walker

Language:

English

Rulings

12/8/2022	You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.
3/19/2021	"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."
3/19/2021	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.
3/19/2021	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.
3/19/2021	A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
3/19/2021	You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
3/19/2021	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.