Otherworldly Gaze
Otherworldly Gaze: Instant, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. Surveil 3. Flashback 1U. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 122
- Artist
- Chris Cold
- Commander rank
- 2,525 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Surveil, Flashback
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About Otherworldly Gaze
Otherworldly Gaze is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common blue instant from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 122 in that set, with art by Chris Cold. It costs {U} (one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (2021) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.44 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback {1}{U} (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: $0.44 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Otherworldly Gaze by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Otherworldly Gaze
Otherworldly Gaze has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2069 | Rare | 2025 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #115 | Common | 2024 |
| Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL) #67 | Common | 2022 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) #67 | Common | 2021 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Otherworldly Gaze, newest first.
- 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.
- "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."
- 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.
- 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.
- When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
Similar cards
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Otherworldly Gaze is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.