Retrieve the Esper
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Create a 3/3 blue Robot Warrior artifact creature token. Then if this spell was cast from a graveyard, put two +1/+1 counters on that token.
Flashback 5 (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-06-06
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.
- 2025-06-06
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.
- 2025-06-06
"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell 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."
- 2025-06-06
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- 2025-06-06
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.
- 2025-06-06
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Retrieve the Esper, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vraska, Soul of Stone | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jeskai 1 deck
Retrieve the Esper price history
The Final Fantasy #68 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.23 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.23 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.24 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.23 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.24 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.15 | $0.24 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.23 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Retrieve the Esper
1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.16
- Foil
- $0.23
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Retrieve the Esper. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
