Alchemist's Retrieval
Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL) #314 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {U}
Cleave {1}{U} (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.
To most, a terrifying apparition. To a necro-alchemist, a potent fuel source.
Illustrated by David Auden Nash · Released January 28, 2022
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.40 USD · €0.11 EUR
- Foil: $4.18 USD · €2.99 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.03 USD (7.0%) to $0.40 USD; low $0.40 USD, high $0.43 USD.
Printings
- The List #VOW-47 (PLST) · Common · 2024 · $0.12 USD
- Innistrad: Double Feature #314 (this printing) · Common · 2022 · $0.40 USD
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow #47 (VOW) · Common · 2021 · $0.18 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2021-11-19 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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.
- 2021-11-19 · wotc — 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 · wotc — If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.