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Wash Away

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Wash Away

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].

Card Information

Color: U
Identifies: U
Cost:
CMC: 1
Types: Instant
Rarity: uncommon
Languages:
Layout: normal
Rank:
#2,669
Saltiness:
0.46 / 4.0

Official 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 {U}, you can't cast it from your graveyard for its cleave cost.