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.
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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.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.47. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.47 and $0.53 across 44 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PLST — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #VOW-87 of *The List*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2024 The List release.
Card type: Instant, color identity blue, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {U} (1 converted). Keyword abilities: Cleave.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #2,857 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Brian Valeza. Rarix catalogs 367 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Brian Valeza
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