Deep Analysis
Starter Commander Decks 46 • common
- Set
- Starter Commander Decks
- Collector number
- 46
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Jesper Ejsing
- Market price
- $0.14
What it does
Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—1 generic mana blue mana, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
"The specimen seems to be broken."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Deep Analysis first appeared in the 2002 Torment expansion for Magic: The Gathering, designed by the game's development team to emphasize the set's focus on the graveyard as a resource. The card mechanics, which allow a player to draw cards from the graveyard using the 'flashback' ability, were intended to reward players for tactical resource management. Jesper Ejsing provided the illustration for the version featured in the Starter Commander Decks, bringing his characteristic painterly style to the art, which depicts the intellectual intensity suggested by the spell's name.
The card has remained a staple in various formats due to its efficiency in providing card advantage. By the time it was included in the Starter Commander Decks, it was already well-regarded by the community as a reliable tool for control and combo strategies. Ejsing's contribution to the card's visual identity helps distinguish it within the broader landscape of blue sorceries, grounding the abstract concept of deep knowledge in a visually evocative and immersive fantasy aesthetic.
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