Battle Screech

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Battle Screech: Sorcery, Commander Masters. Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{W}{W}
Mana value
4
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
White (W)
Rarity
Common
Set
Commander Masters (CMM)
Released
2023-08-04
Collector number
17
Artist
Anastasia Ovchinnikova
Commander rank
7,489 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flashback

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About Battle Screech

Battle Screech is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common white sorcery from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 17 in that set, with art by Anastasia Ovchinnikova. It costs {2}{W}{W} (two generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 9 sets, from Judgment (2002) to Commander Masters (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.34 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.

Flashback-Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

All sounds harmonize with the Worldsoul.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.34 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Battle Screech by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
PremodernLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Battle Screech

Battle Screech has been printed in 9 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
The List (PLST) #JUD-3Uncommon2024
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #174Uncommon2023
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) #59Uncommon2023
Dominaria Remastered (DMR) #2Uncommon2023
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #53Uncommon2021
Modern Horizons (MH1) #4Uncommon2019
Vintage Masters (VMA) #15Common2014
Judgment (JUD) #3Uncommon2002

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Battle Screech, newest first.

  • You can tap any untapped white creatures you control to pay for Battle Screech’s flashback cost, even ones you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • “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.”
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • 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.

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