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 $0.76. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $1.95 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from VOW — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #87 of *Innistrad: Crimson Vow*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2021 Innistrad: Crimson Vow 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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