Wash Away

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].

"May the ocean take it" —Nephalia expression meaning "good riddance"

Set

Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW #87)

Rarity

Uncommon

Mana value

1

Released

2021-11-19

Artist

Brian Valeza

EDHREC rank

#2,894

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil, Foil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Rulings

• 2021-11-19

  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.

• 2021-11-19

  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.

• 2021-11-19

  If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.

• 2021-11-19

  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.

• 2021-11-19

  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 , you can't cast it from your graveyard for its cleave cost.