Casting at instant speed
Give your sorceries and creatures flash, or hold everything until their end step. Playing at instant speed is the cheapest way to make a deck harder to answer.
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| Card | Cost | Type | What it does | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beast Within | {2}{G} | Instant | Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token. | $0.62 |
| 2 | Generous Gift | {2}{W} | Instant | Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. | $0.74 |
| 3 | Vampiric Tutor | {B} | Instant | Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life. | $54.98 |
| 4 | Enlightened Tutor | {W} | Instant | Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. | $36.36 |
| 5 | Mystical Tutor | {U} | Instant | Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. | $18.27 |
| 6 | Worldly Tutor | {G} | Instant | Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top. | $31.78 |
| 7 | Akroma's Will | {3}{W} | Instant | Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and p… | $15.47 |
| 8 | Force of Will | {3}{U}{U} | Instant | You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell. | $59.82 |
| 9 | Village Rites | {B} | Instant | As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. | $0.88 |
| 10 | Orcish Bowmasters | {1}{B} | Creature — Orc Archer | Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1. | $47.03 |
| 11 | Hullbreaker Horror | {5}{U}{U} | Creature — Kraken Horror | Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. | $6.15 |
| 12 | Faerie Mastermind | {1}{U} | Creature — Faerie Rogue | Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card. | $12.30 |
| 13 | Entomb | {B} | Instant | Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle. | $20.01 |
| 14 | Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory | {2}{U} | Creature — Weird // Land | Hydroelectric Specimen: Flash When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature. // Hydroelectric Laboratory: As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don… | $1.24 |
| 15 | Dualcaster Mage | {1}{R}{R} | Creature — Human Wizard | Flash When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. | $4.42 |
| 16 | Archivist of Oghma | {1}{W} | Creature — Halfling Cleric | Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card. | $6.53 |
| 17 | Narset's Reversal | {U}{U} | Instant | Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy. | $3.17 |
| 18 | Tyvar's Stand | {X}{G} | Instant | Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.) | $1.27 |
| 19 | Leyline of Anticipation | {2}{U}{U} | Enchantment | If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash. | $6.45 |
| 20 | Cloudshift | {W} | Instant | Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. | $1.26 |
| 21 | Enduring Curiosity | {2}{U}{U} | Enchantment Creature — Cat Glimmer | Flash Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.) | $6.80 |
| 22 | High Fae Trickster | {3}{U} | Creature — Faerie Wizard | Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You may cast spells as though they had flash. | $4.48 |
| 23 | Murder | {1}{B}{B} | Instant | Destroy target creature. | $0.28 |
| 24 | Demonic Consultation | {B} | Instant | Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way. | — |
| 25 | Dismember | {1}{B/P}{B/P} | Instant | ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. | $4.60 |
| 26 | Dictate of Erebos | {3}{B}{B} | Enchantment | Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. | $17.03 |
| 27 | Roiling Regrowth | {2}{G} | Instant | Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. | $0.26 |
| 28 | Disenchant | {1}{W} | Instant | Destroy target artifact or enchantment. | $0.09 |
| 29 | Notion Thief | {2}{U}{B} | Creature — Human Rogue | Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card. | $1.47 |
| 30 | Amphibian Downpour | {2}{U} | Enchantment — Aura | Flash Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature… | $1.55 |
30 of 6963 cards the search scored for "cast spells at instant speed on other turns". Ordered by how much each card is played, among the cards that matched. Prices and legality come from Scryfall; the list was last refreshed on 2026-09-23.
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