Remand and Flashback

[scutakicker]

I play Call of the Herd and it goes to my graveyard. When I flash it back what happens if I Remand it? Does the card come back to my hand allowing me to play it again (and then flash it back again)?

[netherspirit]

I think so, flashback would cause it to remove from the game, but remand replaces that with the return ability.

[bomholmm]

The spell is removed from the game because flashback replaces the spell going to any zone other than the stack with removing it from the game.

[netherspirit]

Flashback says "Then remove it from the game". So surely the removal will fizzle because Remand puts it in your hand?

[Toad]

bomholmm is correct.

Same thing will happen if you give Flashback to a spell with Buyback. Flashback RFG effect is the very last thing you apply.

[ashiXIII]

Flashback has a special clause in the comprehensive rules that says. "When ~this~ leaves the stack, remove it from the game instead of putting it anywhere else it would go." I'm paraphrasing because I don't feel like looking at the comp. for the exact wording, but you guys can check it yourselves if you need to double-check me.

[Nibble]

Aha, here it is.

502.22a Flashback is a static ability of some instant and sorcery cards that functions while the card is in a player’s graveyard. “Flashback [cost]” means “You may play this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost. If you do, remove this card from the game instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.” Playing a spell using its flashback ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 409.1b and 409.1f–h.