Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.
This card is referencing Mindslicer in its art and arguably its flashback cost (which would play well with 'death triggered' effects like Mindslicer's.)
Posted By:
Missile_Penguin
(3/11/2012 4:39:20 PM)
Dredge Deck mills itself to put Narcomoebas into play, then sacrifices them to Dread Return to play Iona or Flamekin Zealot while creating a dozen zombie tokens in the process.
Posted By:
Luke_BPC
(9/11/2010 1:11:31 PM)
Who knew the "Sac three to flash this back" would end up being the only reason this sees tons and tons of play?
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(7/9/2011 3:22:57 AM)
Saproling Cluster can get this and a mega-fattie into your graveyard while at the same time giving you two of the three creatures you need for the flashback cost.
Posted By:
Plungingforward
(11/8/2010 7:42:44 PM)
narcomoeba is compatible because if you dredge (ie mill yourself) you have a decent chance of putting both this and narcomoeba into your graveyard from your library, then you get to cast this with absolutely no prior investment, along with some big creature you dredged out. you don't even have to put blue in your deck to do this.
Posted By:
supershawn
(3/4/2011 7:41:05 PM)
Gotta love that flashback. Scrap some 1/1 tokens and get a behemoth at no mana cost. Beautiful.
Posted By:
A0602
(11/16/2009 7:58:36 PM)
When dredging and discarding, it's a nice idea to have this card in your graveyard, together with loads of lands, Worm Harvest and something that you want to reanimate! :)
Posted By:
cats_and_me
(11/13/2010 12:19:16 AM)
Wow...favorite art EVAH!!!!! Also, amazing name!
Posted By:
Superllama12
(4/6/2011 5:09:16 PM)
I wonder if they will reprint any good Flasback cards in Innistrad. Its only two months away! Shouldn't this card have the Tombstone in the corner.
Posted By:
JFM2796
(8/1/2011 10:06:49 AM)
The part i like most is that unlike Snuff Out for example, the effect also works if you don't have any swamps.
So if you're not going to hard cast this anyways, you can cast it from your graveyard without even splashing black.
Posted By:
Mode
(8/6/2011 2:35:56 PM)