Sorceress's Schemes 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
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard or exiled card with flashback you own to your hand. Add. Flashback
How it works : Sorceress's Schemes
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· 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.
- #2· 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.
- #3· 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.
- #4· 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.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
"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."
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· 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.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Sorceress's Schemes + Eye of the Storm + Seething Song
- 1Cast Seething Song by paying
. - 2Eye of the Storm triggers, exiling Seething Song and causing you to cast a copy of it without paying its mana cost.
- 3Resolve the Seething Song copy, adding .
- 4Cast Sorceress's Schemes either from your hand by paying
or from your graveyard for its flashback cost by paying 
. - 5Eye of the Storm triggers, exiling Sorceress's Schemes and causing you to cast a copy of it and Seething Song without paying their mana costs.
- 6Resolve the copy of Sorceress's Schemes, returning the original Sorceress's Schemes from exile to your hand and adding .
- 7Resolve the copy of Seething Song, adding .
- 8Repeat from step 4.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion + Savage Beating + Swarm Intelligence + Said // Done
- 1Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Savage Beating without paying its mana cost, choosing its second mode.
- 2Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Savage Beating.
- 3Resolve both Savage Beatings, causing you to get two additional combat phases after this one.
- 4Move to your first combat phase.
- 5Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Said // Done without paying its mana cost, targeting Sorceress's Schemes.
- 6Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Said // Done, targeting Savage Beating.
- 7Resolve both Said // Dones, causing you to return Sorceress's Schemes and Savage Beating from your graveyard to your hand.
- 8Move to your second combat phase.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion + Savage Beating + Swarm Intelligence + Relearn
- 1Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Savage Beating without paying its mana cost, choosing its second mode.
- 2Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Savage Beating.
- 3Resolve both Savage Beatings, causing you to get two additional combat phases after this one.
- 4Move to your first combat phase.
- 5Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Relearn without paying its mana cost, targeting Sorceress's Schemes.
- 6Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Relearn, targeting Savage Beating.
- 7Resolve both Relearns, causing you to return Sorceress's Schemes and Savage Beating from your graveyard to your hand.
- 8Move to your second combat phase.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion + Savage Beating + Mystic Retrieval + Swarm Intelligence
- 1Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Savage Beating without paying its mana cost, choosing its second mode.
- 2Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Savage Beating.
- 3Resolve both Savage Beatings, causing you to get two additional combat phases after this one.
- 4Move to your first combat phase.
- 5Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Mystic Retrieval without paying its mana cost, targeting Sorceress's Schemes.
- 6Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Mystic Retrieval, targeting Savage Beating.
- 7Resolve both Mystic Retrievals, causing you to return Sorceress's Schemes and Savage Beating from your graveyard to your hand.
- 8Move to your second combat phase.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion + Savage Beating + Swarm Intelligence + Call to Mind
- 1Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Savage Beating without paying its mana cost, choosing its second mode.
- 2Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Savage Beating.
- 3Resolve both Savage Beatings, causing you to get two additional combat phases after this one.
- 4Move to your first combat phase.
- 5Declare Tetsuo as an attacker. Tetsuo triggers, causing you to cast Call to Mind without paying its mana cost, targeting Sorceress's Schemes.
- 6Swarm Intelligence triggers, copying Call to Mind, targeting Savage Beating.
- 7Resolve both Call to Minds, causing you to return Sorceress's Schemes and Savage Beating from your graveyard to your hand.
- 8Move to your second combat phase.
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