Cabal Therapy
Sorcery
Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Illustrated by Raymond Swanland · Eternal Masters (EMA)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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You name the card as Cabal Therapy resolves, not as you cast it. Then the targeted player reveals their hand and discards if appropriate. No player may choose to take actions between you naming the card and the targeted player revealing and discarding.
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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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A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
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If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it’s legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
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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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You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card’s type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
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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 mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Atraxa, Grand Unifier 50.0% of lists
Legacy
- Cephalid Breakfast 100.0% of lists
- LED Dredge 100.0% of lists
- Oops! All Spells 100.0% of lists
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- Reanimator 100.0% of lists
- Rakdos Reanimator 96.9% of lists
- Hogaak Moonshadow 58.3% of lists
- Boros Energy 21.8% of lists
- Other 20.4% of lists
- Sultai Tempo 19.6% of lists
Premodern
- 5c Hermit Druid 100.0% of lists
- 5c Stiflenought 100.0% of lists
- Mono-Black 100.0% of lists
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- Mono-Black Midrange 100.0% of lists
- Nether Spirit 100.0% of lists
- The Rock 100.0% of lists
- 4c Aluren 66.7% of lists
- Orzhov Control 28.6% of lists
- Other 25.6% of lists
- Psychatog 4.5% of lists