Snapcaster Mage Price
12 printings · 12 sets · first printed 2011
Snapcaster Mage has been printed 12 times across 12 sets, first in 2011 and most recently in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Innistrad #78 at $13.18, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #808 at $1,742.95 — about 132× more. The median across 10 priced printings is $29.34. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 12x, including dedicated reprint sets like Final Fantasy Commander, Innistrad Remastered.
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Every Snapcaster Mage Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innistrad #78 (R) Cheapest | 2011 | $13.18 | $10.50 |
| Innistrad Remastered #478 (M) | 2025 | $16.97 | $12.50 |
| Modern Masters 2017 #50 (M) | 2017 | $18.23 | $8.75 |
| The List #ISD-78 (R) | 2021 | $18.60 | $13.00 |
| Ultimate Masters #71 (M) | 2018 | $19.20 | $11.50 |
| Pro Tour Promos #2016 (M) Foil | 2016 | $39.48 | $20.00 foil |
| Regional Championship Qualifiers 2023 #2 (M) | 2023 | $41.34 | $540.00 foil |
| Ultimate Box Topper #U5 (M) Foil | 2018 | $49.23 | $31.00 foil |
| Final Fantasy Commander #469 (M) Foil | 2025 | $142.85 | $100.00 foil |
| Secret Lair Drop #808 (M) | 2024 | $1,742.95 | $1,825.00 |
| Shadows of the Past #23 (M) | 2023 | — | — |
| Magic Online Promos #59685 (M) Foil | 2016 | — | — |
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When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 12 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
11 PrecedentsIf a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.
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 you cast a spell with flashback, you can't pay any alternative costs such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell with flashback.
If you cast an instant or sorcery with 
in its mana cost this way, you still choose the value of X as part of casting the spell and pay that cost.
If a card with no mana cost gains flashback, it has no flashback cost. It can't be cast this way.
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
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.
"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."
If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.