Wash Away
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow #87 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.48 USD
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].
Wash Away has 3 printings, first in Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021). EDHREC ranks it #2,951 among Commander cards. It appears most in Baral, Chief of Compliance decks (1,690 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: banned
Commanders that run Wash Away most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Baral, Chief of Compliance: 1,690 decks
- Eluge, the Shoreless Sea: 1,369 decks
- Talrand, Sky Summoner: 882 decks
- Ian Malcolm, Chaotician: 739 decks
- Katara, Waterbending Master: 499 decks
- Toxrill, the Corrosive: 439 decks
- Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep: 376 decks
- Lavinia, Azorius Renegade: 257 decks
Often played with Wash Away
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.