Wash Away

Magic the Gathering symbol
Instant

Cleave Magic the Gathering symbolMagic the Gathering symbolMagic the Gathering symbol(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"

qBrian Valeza
standard
Not Legal
alchemy
Not Legal
pioneer
Legal
explorer
Legal
modern
Legal
historic
Legal
standard brawl
Not Legal
historic brawl
Legal
timeless
Legal

Rulings

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.
(wotc2021-11-19)
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.
(wotc2021-11-19)
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.
(wotc2021-11-19)
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.
(wotc2021-11-19)
If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.
(wotc2021-11-19)
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