Wash Away
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SetPLST
Collector #VOW-87
Released2024-08-02
Rarityuncommon
ArtistBrian Valeza
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Wash Away

UncommonColour IDMV 1
Instant
Cleave (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].
Keywords
Cleave
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2021-11-19Newest 2022-01-28Cheapest priced $0.58 in VOW
Rulings (5)
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.
wotc19 Nov 2021
Copies of spells are never cast from a player's hand, so Wash Away can counter copies of spells even if its cleave cost wasn't paid, regardless of whether the original spell being copied was cast from a player's hand.