Dread Return

Combos with Dread Return

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

• Viscera Seer Dualcaster Mage Infinite
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite scry 1
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
• Scholar of the Ages Sacrifice Infinite
  • Infinite black mana
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite magecraft triggers
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite storm count
  • Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
• Cephalid Illusionist Nomads en-Kor Narcomoeba Thassa's Oracle Infinite
  • Infinite self-mill
  • Win the game
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
• Flash Protean Hulk Dakmor Salvage The Gitrog Monster Putrid Imp Thassa's Oracle Narcomoeba Infinite
  • Infinite self-mill
  • Near-infinite self-discard triggers
  • Win the game
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2021-03-19

  To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback 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.

• 2021-03-19

  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 flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

• 2021-03-19

  "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

• 2021-03-19

  If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

• 2021-03-19

  You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

• 2021-03-19

  A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

• 2022-12-08

  You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Dread Return, whatever its commander.