Decaying Time Loop

Mana cost

Mana value4TypeInstant Color identity

Red RarityUncommon SetDoctor Who (WHO) ArtistAlexander Gering Price€0.21 · foil €2.15 · $0.35

About this card

Decaying Time Loop is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 4 (color identity: red). First printed in Doctor Who (2023); 2 paper printings in total. Role in Commander: card draw. Legal in Commander, Legacy and Vintage. Cardmarket price: €0.21.

Decaying Time Loop

Instant

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

"We try, it doesn't work, we try again. We learn, we improve, we fail again, but better." —The Thirteenth Doctor

Name in each language

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Retrace

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernNot legalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulNot legal

Rulings

2023-10-13
Casting a card by using its retrace ability works just like casting any other spell, with two exceptions: You're casting it from your graveyard rather than your hand, and you must discard a land card in addition to any other costs.

2023-10-13
A retrace card cast from your graveyard follows the normal timing rules for its card type.

2023-10-13
When a retrace spell you cast from your graveyard resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered, it's put back into your graveyard. You may use the retrace ability to cast it again.

2023-10-13
If the active player casts a spell that has retrace, that player may cast that card again after it resolves, before another player can remove the card from the graveyard. The active player has priority after the spell resolves, so they can immediately cast a new spell. Since casting a card with retrace from the graveyard moves that card onto the stack, no one else would have the chance to affect it while it's still in the graveyard.