Coffin Purge is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Exile target card from a graveyard. Flashback(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Complete guide
Coffin Purge is a precise surgical tool designed to eliminate threats lurking in the graveyard. This black instant allows you to exile problematic cards twice thanks to its efficient Flashback ability.
What It Does
Coffin Purge is a targeted graveyard hate spell. For just one black mana, you can exile any single card from any player's graveyard. Its Flashback ability allows you to cast it a second time from your own graveyard for the same low cost, effectively dealing with two separate threats using only one card slot in your deck.
How It Resolves Step by Step
When you cast Coffin Purge, you choose a target card in a graveyard. If the target is still there when the spell resolves, that card is moved to the exile zone. If you cast it using Flashback, the spell itself is moved to the exile zone instead of returning to the graveyard once it finishes resolving or if it is countered.
Common Mistakes
A common mistake is forgetting that a spell cast via Flashback is exiled regardless of what happens to it on the stack. If your opponent counters Coffin Purge while you are casting it for its Flashback cost, it still goes to exile, not back to your graveyard. Additionally, remember that you must still follow timing rules; since Coffin Purge is an instant, you can use its Flashback at any time you could cast an instant.
When to Play It
This card is best used in response to effects that try to return cards from the graveyard to the hand or battlefield. By casting Coffin Purge while such an effect is on the stack, you can exile the intended target, causing your opponent's spell to lose its target and potentially fail to resolve.
Interaction examples
Dark RitualYou can cast Dark Ritual to add three black mana to your pool. You then spend one mana to cast Coffin Purge from your hand to exile a card. Since Coffin Purge is now in your graveyard, you can immediately spend a second mana from your Ritual to cast it again using Flashback, exiling a second card.
Vampiric TutorIf an opponent uses Vampiric Tutor to put a powerful card on top of their library, and then uses an effect to mill that card into their graveyard, you can cast Coffin Purge to exile that specific card before they have a chance to reanimate it or bring it back to their hand.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Coffin Purge
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
“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.”
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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