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Alchemist's Retrieval
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Types
Instant
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Prices
Normal
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Details
Rules
Cleave (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.
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Rarity
Common
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Number
314
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Artist
David Auden Nash
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Language
English
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Expansion
Innistrad: Double Feature
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Rulings
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.
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If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell 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.
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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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To most, a terrifying apparition. To a necro-alchemist, a potent fuel source.
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