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Instant
Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Flashback—{1 generic}{blue}, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)
Details
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- First printed
- Judgment
- Released
- 2002-05-27
- Artist
- Ben Thompson
- Printings
- 2
Prices
- Cheapest legal
- $0.43
- Cheapest foil
- $75.27
TCGplayer market via Scryfall, 2026-10-18; cheapest tournament-legal paper printing.
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Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Flash of Insight (main or sideboard): 4,173 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 13.9%
- −5.5 ppdown 28.3% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 11.9%
- −1.2 ppdown 9.2% over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 579
- 100% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 1.7
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Stiflenought90% of lists · 443
- Stasis76% of lists · 81
- Unclassified11% of lists · 46
- Aluren14% of lists · 5
- Landstill2% of lists · 3
- UW Control4% of lists · 1
Often played with
Cards most played alongside Flash of Insight in its top archetypes over the last 90 days: Stiflenought (90%), Stasis (76%).
In our decks
Printings (2)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap the thumbnail to preview a printing; tap the set name to see all cards in that set.
Price trend
Price tracking started . A real price history appears here as daily snapshots accumulate.