Flicker
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Urza's DestinyUDS · #9
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 3.70 € · ★ 41.89 € · 6.54 $ · ★ 193.40 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- White
Card text
Exile target nontoken permanent, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Douglas Shuler
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1999-06-07
Flavour text
Who is truer: you who are, or you who are to be?
Rulings
It will trigger "enters" abilities and "leaves the battlefield" abilities. Note that the card does not go to the graveyard, so it will not trigger "goes to the graveyard" abilities.
This could be used to make the target of another spell or ability illegal if this wasn't a sorcery (which makes it really hard to do that). This is because the Flickered permanent leaves the battlefield and then returns as a completely different permanent, and the targeted spell will not recognize it.
This spell effectively "resets" the permanent to being just like it was freshly cast. All counters, Auras, effects, and so on are removed when it is exiled. Then it comes back onto the battlefield like new.