Alchemist's Retrieval
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SetDBL
Collector #314
Released2022-01-28
Raritycommon
ArtistDavid Auden Nash
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Alchemist's Retrieval

CommonColour IDMV 1
Instant
Cleave (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Return target nonland permanent [you control] to its owner's hand.
Keywords
Cleave
Card capabilities
Instant
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2021-11-19Newest 2024-08-02Cheapest priced $0.12 in PLST
Rulings (4)
wotc19 Nov 2021
You can't cast a spell for both its cleave cost and another alternative cost. For example, if an effect gives an Alchemist's Retrieval in your graveyard a flashback cost of {U}, you can't cast it from your graveyard for its cleave cost.
wotc19 Nov 2021
If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.
wotc19 Nov 2021
A cleave cost is an alternative cost that's paid instead of the spell's mana cost. Casting a spell for its cleave cost doesn't change the spell's mana value.
wotc19 Nov 2021
If you cast a spell for its cleave cost, that spell doesn't have any of the text in square brackets while it's on the stack.