Wash Away

The List (PLST) #VOW-87 · Uncommon · Instant

Mana cost: {U}

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (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"

Illustrated by Brian Valeza · Released August 2, 2024

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.08 USD (21.1%) to $0.46 USD; low $0.38 USD, high $0.47 USD.

Printings

  1. The List #VOW-87 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.46 USD
  2. Innistrad: Double Feature #354 (DBL) · Uncommon · 2022 · $2.40 USD
  3. Innistrad: Crimson Vow #87 (VOW) · Uncommon · 2021 · $0.45 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 2021-11-19 · wotc — 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.
  5. 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.

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