First printed in Innistrad (2011)
Sorcery
Return target exiled card with flashback you own to your hand.
"What some call obsession, I call the quest for perfection."
- Illustrated by
- Svetlin Velinov
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (3)
- An effect that gives flashback to an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard stops applying once that card has left the stack. The card won’t have flashback while exiled and can’t be the target of Runic Repetition (unless it naturally has flashback).
- A card that’s exiled face down doesn’t have any characteristics or abilities, so it can’t be the target of Runic Repetition.
- The card could have been exiled for any reason, not just because it was cast using flashback.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
11 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite magecraft triggers…: Mizzix of the Izmagnus + Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition + Turnabout
- Infinite turns, Lock: Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition + Time Warp
- Infinite untap of permanents you control, Cast all spells in your library…: Apex of Power + Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition + Vadrik, Astral Archmage
- Infinite turns, Lock: Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition + Temporal Manipulation
- Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite magecraft triggers…: Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition + Turnabout + Vadrik, Astral Archmage
- Infinite untap of permanents you control, Cast all spells in your library…: Apex of Power + Mizzix of the Izmagnus + Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition
- Infinite turns, Lock: Capture of Jingzhou + Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition
- Infinite turns, Lock: Mystic Retrieval + Runic Repetition + Walk the Aeons
- Infinite copies of spells exiled by Eye of the Storm, Infinite magecraft triggers…: Eye of the Storm + Runic Repetition + Seething Song
- Infinite turns, Lock: Mystic Retrieval + Notorious Throng + Runic Repetition