Seize the Day
Seize the Day: Sorcery, Ultimate Masters. Untap target creature. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Ultimate Masters (UMA)
- Released
- 2018-12-07
- Collector number
- 147
- Artist
- Greg Staples
- Commander rank
- 1,632 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flashback
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About Seize the Day
Seize the Day is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red sorcery from Ultimate Masters (UMA), a Masters set released in December 2018. It is collector number 147 in that set, with art by Greg Staples. It costs {3}{R} (three generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Odyssey (2001) to Marvel Super Heroes Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $6.55 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Flashback {2}{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: $6.55 (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 Seize the Day by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Seize the Day
Seize the Day has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #166 | Rare | 2026 |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #371 | Rare | 2026 |
| Marvel Universe (MAR) #73 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1172 | Rare | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #UMA-147 | Rare | 2021 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #480 | Rare | 2021 |
| Odyssey (ODY) #220 | Rare | 2001 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Seize the Day, newest first.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- "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."
- If you somehow cast Seize the Day during an opponent's main phase, that opponent attacks during the resulting combat phase, since it's still that player's turn. If you somehow cast it not during a main phase at all, all that happens is you untap the target creature.
- Seize the Day can target a creature that's already untapped.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Seize the Day is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.