Flash of Insight
Mana cost {X}{1}{U}.
Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)
Flash of Insight is a blue card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Judgment printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€2.2) · TCGplayer ($1.94) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €1.44 and €2.62 in that time.
How often Flash of Insight is played
Flash of Insight is maindecked in 4 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (3%), averaging 1.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 48 decks that can cast blue cards, 4 of them play it (8%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Flash of Insight
- Stasis (1x)
Tournament decks with Flash of Insight
- Storm: 3rd Place at Semanal Premodern (1× mainboard)
- Mono Blue Control: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (1× mainboard)
- Mono Blue Control: 1st Place at MTGO Challenge (1× mainboard)
- UW Control: 1st Place at Moxforge League May 2026 (1× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Flash of Insight
- Pirates (1×)
