I cast the spell, pass priority and no one responds - the spell resolves, I scry and draw and place the Scour in my graveyard. There is no pass of priority. I chose to Flashback the spell, exile the spell and cast it by playing it's flashback cost.
Is this correct? Does the player with the Apostle ever get a chance to activate the graveyard exiling ability on the Apostle?
Assuming it's your main phase and the stack was empty when you cast Scour All Possibilities, then that spell will go to the graveyard as the last step of resolving (so that nothing is on the stack anymore), then you (the player whose turn it is) get priority, which you can use right away to cast Scour All Possibilities (a sorcery card) from your graveyard using flashback (C.R. 608.2k, 117.3b, 117.1a, 702.33a). (As part of casting Scour All Possibilities, you move that card from where it is to the stack [C.R. 601.2], so that it won't be in the graveyard anymore.) However, if a triggered ability (e.g., that of Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind or Energy Field) triggered while Scour All Possibilities was resolving, that triggered ability will go on the stack before you get priority this way (C.R. 117.5), so that it's not a time that you could normally cast a sorcery spell (including Scour All Possibilities) because the stack isn't empty (C.R. 117.1a).
Note that you don't exile Scour All Possibilities right after you cast it using flashback (despite what the reminder text for flashback may suggest), but rather if that spell would leave the stack, you exile it instead of putting it anywhere else (e.g., if that spell resolves or is countered, it's exiled rather than going to the graveyard [review C.R. 608.2k, 701.5a]) (C.R. 702.33a).
This is very similar to how I view Planeswalkers and using their abilities. It's your main phase, you cast a pwer and it resolves, people can't bolt it, Beast Within it, et before you can use the sorcery speed loyalty abilities
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I cast the spell, pass priority and no one responds - the spell resolves, I scry and draw and place the Scour in my graveyard. There is no pass of priority. I chose to Flashback the spell, exile the spell and cast it by playing it's flashback cost.
Is this correct? Does the player with the Apostle ever get a chance to activate the graveyard exiling ability on the Apostle?
Note that you don't exile Scour All Possibilities right after you cast it using flashback (despite what the reminder text for flashback may suggest), but rather if that spell would leave the stack, you exile it instead of putting it anywhere else (e.g., if that spell resolves or is countered, it's exiled rather than going to the graveyard [review C.R. 608.2k, 701.5a]) (C.R. 702.33a).