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Cycling and madnessing this card effectively makes it a cantrip Shock with a bunch of other useful options. Certainly worth the 1RedRed.
Posted By: DarthMohawk1 (6/14/2010 8:13:47 PM)
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@Gezus82, no you can't. You can buyback from madness, but you can't buyback from flashback.
Posted By: A3Kitsune (3/1/2010 6:14:46 AM)
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This got me thinking, a card with madness and cycling would be so cool.
Posted By: Deathtamoor (6/10/2009 2:27:39 AM)
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The art is reminiscent of Death Spark, which makes it awesome.
Posted By: achilleselbow (6/25/2010 7:42:03 AM)
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I made something KIND of like this in response to the question: "How do you kill Jace, the Mind Sculptor? He's the Batman of Magic!"

Smaug Goes Crazy- {X}{X}{X}{1}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}

Instant- Arcane Trap (Mythic Rare)

If target player gains control of something that doesn’t belong to them, you may pay {0} instead of any of Smaug Goes Crazy’s alternate costs. Destroy X target artifacts and X target lands. Smaug Goes Crazy deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature’s controller. If Smaug Goes Crazy was cycled from your graveyard, draw three cards instead of one card. If Smaug Goes Crazy was kicked, he eats all your cows and sheep, too.

Madness {R} Cycling {R} Kicker {R} Flashback {R} Buyback {R} Splice onto Arcane {R} Rebound
(If you pay the cycling, madness, kicker, flashback, cycling, kicker, buyback, and splice costs in that order, you draw four cards, destroy XX target artifacts, XX target lands, deal 8 damage to target creature and 4 damage to that creature’s... (see all)
Posted By: DarthParallax (1/24/2012 1:08:44 AM)
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You cannot buyback this card from a flashback. Buyback is a replacement effect, which replaces the event that an instant/sorcery is put into a graveyard after resolving. Because Flashback's effect states

“If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”,
Buyback's effect cannot replace anything, because no matter where another effect would put it, the card is still removed from play.

You CAN, however...
cycle-madness-kick-buyback, for a grand total of 7RRRR
flashback-kick for 5RR
Posted By: Nerobyrne (3/8/2010 4:31:38 AM)
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Aw, man, I always thought you could Flashback/Buyback with this thing. Oh well, it's still epic.
Posted By: izzet_guild_mage (7/12/2010 3:46:22 PM)
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the le reddit r/mtg army and its leejun loves this card! 5 stars if you agree!
Posted By: hot4boys (1/30/2013 3:28:28 PM)
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This is a really good card, therefore it fails as an "Un" card.
Posted By: DCAnderson (7/29/2012 5:41:44 PM)
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The problem with cycle + madness cast is that the card is exiled, so no flashback for you :-( Otherwise great with Jaya Ballard and Chandra Ablaze
Posted By: zipec (8/27/2012 10:33:44 AM)
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