---
name: "Mystic Retrieval"
mana_cost: "{3}{U}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R", "U"]
keywords: ["Flashback"]
set: "INR"
set_name: "Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "77"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Scott Chou"
oracle_id: "b7cfbfa1-dd38-47ff-9138-fa6b247afc11"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/mystic-retrieval-inr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Mystic Retrieval
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{U}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Flashback

## Oracle Text
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Call to Mind](/printing/call-to-mind-c14.md) — Sorcery
2. [Relearn](/printing/relearn-s99.md) — Sorcery
3. [Runic Repetition](/printing/runic-repetition-c19.md) — Sorcery
4. [Sorceress's Schemes](/printing/sorceresss-schemes-fin.md) — Sorcery
5. [Sage's Knowledge](/printing/sages-knowledge-ptk.md) — Sorcery
6. [Flood of Recollection](/printing/flood-of-recollection-cmr.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad Remastered (INR) #77
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Scott Chou

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2011-01-22)* Mystic Retrieval can't target itself. It's on the stack when you choose its target.
- *(2021-03-19)* 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.
- *(2021-03-19)* A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- *(2021-03-19)* "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."
- *(2021-03-19)* You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- *(2021-03-19)* 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.