Flash of Insight
The List JUD-40 • uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- JUD-40
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- X mana 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Ben Thompson
- Market price
- $0.48
What it does
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 mana blue mana, 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.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Flash of Insight was originally printed as an uncommon in the Scourge expansion of Magic: The Gathering, released in 2003. It was designed as a blue instant spell that allows a player to look at the top seven cards of their library, put one into their hand, and shuffle the rest back, providing a strategic filtering effect common in the game's high-synergy environments.
The card features artwork by Bradley Williams, whose illustration depicts a mage caught in a moment of psychic clarity. It was later added to 'The List,' a curated selection of reprints integrated into Set Boosters starting in 2020. This inclusion brought the card back into the modern fold, allowing it to appear in packs with its original frame and the iconic planeswalker symbol watermark that denotes its status within the reprint program.
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