Flash of Defiance

set	min	mtgo
-	3.52	0.04 tix

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Name	Flash of Defiance
Type	Sorcery
Description	Green creatures and white creatures can't block this turn. Flashback—, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Artist	Carl Critchlow
Set	Torment #99
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About Flash of Defiance

Flash of Defiance, Sorcery, designed by Carl Critchlow first released in Feb, 2002 in the set Torment. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 3.52.

A deck that focuses on aggressive strategies and aims to overwhelm the opponent quickly would benefit from using Flash of Defiance, as it can help push through for damage by preventing green and white creatures from blocking. While Flash of Defiance can be situationally powerful, other cards like Lightning Bolt or Lava Spike might be more efficient for burn decks, and its downside of requiring 3 life for the flashback cost may limit its overall playability in competitive formats.

Rules

03/19/21

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 converted mana cost of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

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You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

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“Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”

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