Snapback
Time Spiral Remastered 87 • common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Collector number
- 87
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Alan Pollack
- Market price
- $0.37
What it does
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
"If it returns years hence, our knowledge of how to combat it will be that much greater."— Andorel, Tolarian sentinel
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Snapback was originally released in the 2006 Magic: The Gathering set Time Spiral, a block celebrated for its focus on nostalgia and the evolution of the game’s mechanics. The card was designed as a blue instant with a flexible 'free' casting cost, allowing players to return a land to their hand to cast it without spending mana, a mechanic echoing the powerful spells found in the game's earliest years.
The version from Time Spiral Remastered, released in 2021, features artwork by Alan Pollack, who has been a frequent contributor to Magic since the late 1990s. Pollack’s illustration captures the spell's essence of kinetic energy and displacement, maintaining the cohesive aesthetic of the remastered set, which aimed to condense the complex themes of the original three-set block into a single, curated drafting experience for long-time players.
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