Sorceress's Schemes
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard or exiled card with flashback you own to your hand. Add .
Flashback 4 (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Combos with Sorceress's Schemes
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Eye of the Storm Seething Song Infinite
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite red mana
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite copies of spells exiled by Eye of the Storm
- Tetsuo, Imperial Champion Savage Beating Mystic Retrieval Swarm Intelligence Infinite
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite magecraft triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
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
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- 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
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
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Sorceress's Schemes, whatever its commander.
Every version of Sorceress's Schemes
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
- $0.27
- Foil
- $0.34
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sorceress's Schemes. 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.
