Dread Return

• WOTC Official Reminder Textofficial rules
  Flashback — Flashback [cost] (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

• WWizards of the Coast2021-03-19
  Official Ruling
  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.
• WWizards of the Coast2021-03-19
  Official Ruling
  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.
• WWizards of the Coast2021-03-19
  Official Ruling
  "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard 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."
• WWizards of the Coast2021-03-19
  Official Ruling
  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.
• WWizards of the Coast2021-03-19
  Official Ruling
  You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
• WWizards of the Coast2021-03-19
  Official Ruling
  A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
• WWizards of the Coast2022-12-08
  Official Ruling
  You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.

Rulings via Scryfall

• WO
  Wizards of the Coast2015-02-03

  Dread Return was banned in modern on February 3, 2015. Modern kicked off with a banned list that was created in large part based on Legacy play, the old Extended format, and decks played at the Community Cup that year. We are going to allow turn-four combination decks, but not decks that consistently win the game on turn three. Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/arcana/brief-history-modern-banned-list-2015-02-03