Grasp of Phantoms
Sorcery
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26074
Grasp of Phantoms puts a creature on top of its owner's library — a temporary answer that doesn't answer anything permanently. Four mana at sorcery speed for a delayed bounce is too slow for most formats, and the Flashback cost of five blue mana makes the second use a luxury you rarely afford.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Grasp of Phantoms occupies a narrow niche: decks that want to manipulate the top of a library (milling, Chaos Warp-style disruption, or forcing a topdeck lock) rather than remove a threat outright. The sorcery speed and the fact that the creature comes back make it a poor fit for reactive control shells. In Pauper, the commons pool is starved enough for blue tempo that Grasp of Phantoms sees occasional fringe play, but bounce spells with more permanent upside generally outcompete it. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it given the density of instant-speed, permanent answers available. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in this regard — playable only in dedicated library-manipulation strategies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Grasp of Phantoms is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a trade binder without moving the needle on any budget. Demand is low enough that the price is unlikely to spike absent a reprint in a popular precon that spotlights the effect.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.