Wash Away
Mana value1TypeInstant
Color identity Blue
RarityUncommon
SetInnistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)
ArtistBrian Valeza
Price€1.00 · foil €2.28 · $0.49About this card
Wash Away is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 1 (color identity: blue). First printed in Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021); 3 paper printings in total. Role in Commander: counterspell. It is one of the 5,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 2,952). Legal in Commander, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €0.65 (The List); most expensive: €1.14 (Innistrad: Double Feature).
Wash Away
(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"
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Legality
Rulings
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 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
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
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.
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.
Cards with the same role: counterspell
Counterspell
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Arcane Denial
Negate
Swan Song
Fierce Guardianship
Mana Drain
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
Force of Will
Force of Negation
Hullbreaker Horror
Flusterstorm
