Wash Away (Innistrad: Crimson Vow) - Gatherer

Wash Away

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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Wash Away

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant

Card Text:

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].

Flavor Text:

"May the ocean take it"

—Nephalia expression meaning

"good riddance"

Expansion:

Innistrad: Crimson Vow

Rarity:

Uncommon

Card Number:

Artist:

Brian Valeza

Language:

English

Rulings

11/19/2021	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.
11/19/2021	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.
11/19/2021	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.
11/19/2021	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 , you can't cast it from your graveyard for its cleave cost.
11/19/2021	If an effect allows you to "cast a spell without paying its mana cost," you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.