Flash of Insight
Instant
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—
, 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.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Judgment
- Price
- $2.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20821
Flash of Insight lets you look at the top X cards of your library and keep one — and if you can pay the flashback cost, you get to do it twice from a single card slot. Two looks at your library for one card slot is efficient enough that any blue Commander deck running a graveyard subtheme or spell-count payoff should consider it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Flash of Insight earns its slot in decks that can reliably pay the flashback — Izzet spellslinger builds and graveyard-heavy blue strategies get the most mileage out of two library digs from one card. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but free cantrips and more powerful card selection make Flash of Insight a fringe inclusion at best — the conditional nature of X-cost filtering doesn't compete with Brainstorm or Ponder. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Standard, and Pauper's card-pool also excludes it, so Commander and Oathbreaker are the realistic homes where the flashback upside actually matters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.10 cheap tier
At $2.10, Flash of Insight sits firmly in the budget tier — cheap enough to slot in without deliberation. It sees modest enough play that the price is unlikely to spike, so buying in now is fine and waiting costs nothing.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.