---
name: "Seize the Storm"
mana_cost: "{4}{R}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R"]
keywords: ["Flashback"]
set: "INR"
set_name: "Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "170"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Deruchenko Alexander"
oracle_id: "d3455e93-3a05-42db-945d-c4c85f4ac827"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/seize-the-storm-inr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Seize the Storm
- **Mana Cost:** `{4}{R}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Flashback

## Oracle Text
Create a red Elemental creature token with trample and "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard plus the number of cards with flashback you own in exile."
Flashback {6}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Elemental Eruption](/printing/elemental-eruption-otc.md) — Sorcery
2. [Kindle the Inner Flame](/printing/kindle-the-inner-flame-ecl.md) — Kindred Sorcery — Elemental
3. [Firecat Blitz](/printing/firecat-blitz-jud.md) — Sorcery
4. [Elemental Appeal](/printing/elemental-appeal-zen.md) — Sorcery
5. [Elemental Mastery](/printing/elemental-mastery-nec.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Devastating Summons](/printing/devastating-summons-roe.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad Remastered (INR) #170
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Deruchenko Alexander

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2021-09-24)* 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.
- *(2021-09-24)* While a spell is on the stack, it is neither in your graveyard nor in exile, so it won't contribute to the Elemental's power and toughness. For example, with Seize the Storm in your graveyard and no cards in exile, the 1/1 Elemental in the above scenario will become 0/0 and die if you cast Seize the Storm from your graveyard using flashback.
- *(2021-09-24)* The power and toughness of the Elemental token will change as the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard and the number of cards with flashback you own in exile change.
- *(2021-09-24)* 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.
- *(2021-09-24)* You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- *(2021-09-24)* 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.