Wash Away
Innistrad: Crimson Vow (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 November 19, 2021
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.45 USD · €0.88 EUR
- Foil: $1.10 USD · €2.63 EUR
Nonfoil price since July 24, 2026: down $0.41 USD (47.7%) to $0.45 USD; low $0.43 USD, high $0.91 USD.
Printings
- The List #VOW-87 (PLST) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.46 USD
- Innistrad: Double Feature #354 (DBL) · Uncommon · 2022 · $2.40 USD
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow #87 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2021 · $0.45 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Banned
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 · 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.