Flashforward
Keyword Action
Introduced	Mystery Booster 2
Last used	Mystery Booster 2
Reminder Text	Flashforward (You may cast this card from exile for its flashforward cost. Then put it on the bottom of your library.)
Statistics	1 card 100%
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fulloracle:"Flashforward"

Flashforward is a keyword action introduced on the 2024 Mystery Booster 2 test card Boltfire.

Description

"Flasforward" is a play on the Flashback mechanic but rather than cast the card from your graveyard and put it into exile, the card is cast from exile and put on the bottom of its owner's library. The mechanic itself has no way of placing the card into exile; that must be achieved by the player through other means. Once in exile, it can be cast for its flashforward cost as an alternative cost.

Rulings

• "Flashforward [cost]" means "You may cast this card from exile by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashforward cost was paid, put this card on the bottom of its owner's library instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."^[1]
• 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 flashforward only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
• To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashforward 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.
• A spell cast using flashforward will always be put on the bottom of its owner's library afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
• When you cast Boltfire normally, it will go to the graveyard after it finishes resolving. You'll have to figure out how to get it into exile to cast it with its flashforward ability.
• If some other effect gives you permission to cast Boltfire from exile, such as if you exiled it with Dark-Dweller Oracle, you may cast Boltfire using either permission.

Example

See also

• Flashback
• Unearth

References