Alchemist's Gambit
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SetVOW
Collector #140
Released2021-11-19
Rarityrare
ArtistZoltan Boros
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Alchemist's Gambit

RareColour IDMV 3
Sorcery
Cleave (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Take an extra turn after this one. During that turn, damage can't be prevented. [At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.]
Exile Alchemist's Gambit.
Keywords
Cleave
Card capabilities
Sorcery
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
4 other English printingsEarliest 2021-11-19Newest 2022-06-28Cheapest priced $0.38 in VOW
Rulings (7)
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
Exiling Alchemist's Gambit happens as part of its resolution. If the spell is countered, it will go to the graveyard as normal.
wotc19 Nov 2021
If you somehow skip the extra turn Alchemist's Gambit gives you or skip that turn's end step, the delayed triggered ability never triggers. (If you cast Alchemist's Gambit by paying its cleave cost, the delayed triggered ability is never created at all.)
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.