Can you flashback cards with X in their cost and pay them normally?

Asked by WalzY 12 years ago

See above - e.g. Snapcaster Mage ->Bonfire of the Damned / Sphinx's Revelation

tricide says... #1

You sure can. Snapcaster's ETB trigger simply gives a card Flashback until the end of turn.

March 30, 2013 9:11 a.m.

Dallie says... Accepted answer #2

Snapcaster Mage grants a spell in your graveyard a flashback cost equal to it's mana cost.

That means that a Sphinx's Revelation in your graveyard will have Flashback X WUU.

You may pay any amount of mana as X, even from your graveyard.

Only cards that allow you to cast spells without paying their mana costs, forces X to be 0.

March 30, 2013 9:21 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #3

The other answers are already correct, but here's an example to consider: Devil's Play has a flashback cost with X in it and it works exactly how you think it would. When you cast it from the graveyard using the flashback cost, you choose the value of X and pay the appropriate amount of mana.

The only time X in a cost defaults to 0 is when an effect has you cast the spell for the alternative cost of "without paying its mana cost" (Omniscience , Knowledge Pool , Sins of the Past , etc.).

March 30, 2013 10:15 a.m.

Bobgalarneau says... #4

Just a little addition, X is also set as 0 for cascade effect

March 30, 2013 2:05 p.m.

Schuesseled says... #5

simply yes, it's flashback cost would include x, whatever you chose that amount to be. (in this current casting, it doesn't care what x was the last time it was cast.)

March 30, 2013 4:56 p.m.

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