Alchemist's Retrieval card art

Alchemist's Retrieval

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Cleave 1 (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.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 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

    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

    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

    If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Alchemist's Retrieval, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Gisa and Geralf 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Dimir 1 deck

Every version of Alchemist's Retrieval

3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Alchemist's Retrieval — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.