Increasing Confusion
Sorcery
Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $1.07
- EDHREC rank
- #9595
Increasing Confusion mills X cards for X mana at instant speed, and casting it from the graveyard doubles the effect — so a five-mana flashback shot mills ten. Neerdiv, Devious Diver gets you there fast by filling the graveyard early, turning the flashback half from a late-game bonus into a reliable midgame finisher.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Neerdiv, Devious Diver
Neerdiv, Devious Diver self-mills aggressively, which puts Increasing Confusion in the graveyard quickly and sets up the doubled flashback before opponents stabilize — the synergy score of 0.49 reflects that this is nearly a core inclusion, not a flex slot.
The Emperor of Palamecia
The Emperor of Palamecia generates value from opponents drawing and discarding, so Increasing Confusion does double duty: it depletes a library and can trigger payoffs tied to cards leaving opponent hands or graveyards.
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, so Increasing Confusion's already-scalable X cost becomes twice as punishing — the flashback half under Bruvac can close out a player in a single activation.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Increasing Confusion is a Commander card in practice — the flashback doubling only matters in a longer game where you have time to fill a graveyard and recast at higher X values, and Commander's singleton rule means you want that second cast rather than a fourth copy. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with faster, cheaper mill options and rarely sees play. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it has a realistic home, since mill-focused spellslingers can set up the flashback quickly in a shorter game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.07 cheap tier
At $1.07, Increasing Confusion sits in the cheap tier — easy to pick up without a second thought for any mill build. The price is stable; it's not a card that spikes on demand, but dedicated mill commanders keep a floor of consistent low-level demand under it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver
- The Emperor of Palamecia
- Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.