Ignite the Future

Card text

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may play cards this way without paying their mana costs.

Flashback {7}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.48 (as of 2026-11-11).

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Format legality

Legality of Ignite the Future by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Ignite the Future

Ignite the Future has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Ignite the Future, newest first.

• 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 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 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.
• 2019-08-23 If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
• 2019-08-23 If you don't play some or all of the exiled cards, those cards remain in exile.

Similar cards

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