Snapback Price

Updated 2026-07-25

Snapback from Time Spiral is a Common blue instant that bounces a creature for free when another blue spell is cast, a flash-in-hand effect that provides a tempo tool for Modern and Legacy tempo and control strategies. The card is a functional staple for Merfolk and other blue tempo decks, where free bounce effects extend the value of each blue spell cast in a turn. Thirty-day data shows meaningful appreciation with the seven-day price flat at the higher level, consistent with the market absorbing a specific demand catalyst and stabilizing. Time Spiral was not a high-print-run set by modern standards, and Near Mint copies of actively-played Commons from 2006 are genuinely scarce relative to current demand. Common rarity in an older small set frequently understates actual scarcity at high condition grades. Watch Modern and Legacy tempo deck popularity as the primary driver of continued demand.