Viral Spawning
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This printing
SetONE
Collector #194
Released2023-02-10
Rarityuncommon
ArtistDenis Zhbankov
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Viral Spawning

UncommonColour IDMV 3
Sorcery
Create a 3/3 green Phyrexian Beast creature token with toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)
Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters and this card is in your graveyard, it has flashback . (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Keywords
Corrupted
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (6)
wotc4 Feb 2023
"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."
wotc4 Feb 2023
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
wotc4 Feb 2023
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.
wotc4 Feb 2023
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
wotc4 Feb 2023
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.
wotc4 Feb 2023
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.