Alchemist's Retrieval
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature #314 (common)
- Price
- $0.38 USD
Cleave {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Return target nonland permanent [you control] to its owner's hand.
Alchemist's Retrieval has 3 printings, first in Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021). EDHREC ranks it #9,279 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tameshi, Reality Architect decks (246 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Alchemist's Retrieval most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tameshi, Reality Architect: 246 decks
- The Master, Formed Anew: 96 decks
- Barrin, Tolarian Archmage: 19 decks
- Dorothea, Vengeful Victim // Dorothea's Retribution: 15 decks
- Alirios, Enraptured: 14 decks
- Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows: 10 decks
- Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot: 4 decks
- Wasp, Shrinking Savior: 4 decks
Often played with Alchemist's Retrieval
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.