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Forbidden Alchemy

Forbidden Alchemy Price

15 printings · 14 sets · first printed 2011

Cheapest $0.07
Median $0.25
Highest $0.61
EDHREC Rank #5,230

Forbidden Alchemy has been printed 15 times across 14 sets, first in 2011 and most recently in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed #43 at $0.07, while the most expensive is Friday Night Magic 2012 #7 at $0.61 — about 9× more. The median across 13 priced printings is $0.25. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 15x, including dedicated reprint sets like Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander, Innistrad Remastered.

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Every Forbidden Alchemy Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed #43 (C) Cheapest 2016 $0.07 —
Innistrad #55 (C) 2011 $0.07 —
Ravnica: Clue Edition #86 (U) 2024 $0.15 —
Forgotten Realms Commander #84 (U) 2021 $0.18 —
Innistrad Remastered #65 (U) 2025 $0.21 —
Modern Masters 2017 #38 (C) 2017 $0.21 —
Innistrad Remastered #355 (U) 2025 $0.25 $0.16 foil
Tales of Middle-earth Commander #191 (C) 2023 $0.26 —
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #152 (C) 2025 $0.27 —
Ultimate Masters #56 (U) 2018 $0.27 —
Double Masters 2022 #49 (C) 2022 $0.28 —
The List #MM3-38 (C) 2019 $0.37 —
Friday Night Magic 2012 #7 (R) Foil 2012 $0.61 $0.06 foil
Shadows of the Past #15 (C) 2023 — —
Magic Online Promos #45203 (C) Foil 2013 — —

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Instant
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Flashback 6B (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legal In
Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Pauper Brawl Penny Dreadful

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 15 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

7 Precedents

If you have fewer than four cards in your library, you'll look at all the cards there and put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

"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."

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.

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.

A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

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.