Wash Away card art

Wash Away

Instant MV 1

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Cleave 1 (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].

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 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 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

    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 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 Wash Away, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 7
Win rate 42.9%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Namor the Sub-Mariner 1 7 42.9%
Urza, Lord High Artificer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 2 decks

Wash Away price history

The Innistrad: Crimson Vow #87 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.51▲ $0.06 (13.3%)
Low $0.43 · High $0.52Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 26, 2026$0.51$1.23
Oct 25, 2026$0.51$1.23
Oct 24, 2026$0.52$1.23
Oct 23, 2026$0.52$1.19
Oct 21, 2026$0.52$1.12
Oct 20, 2026$0.50$1.09
Oct 19, 2026$0.47$1.09
Oct 17, 2026$0.47$1.12
Oct 16, 2026$0.48$1.10
Oct 14, 2026$0.46$1.10
Oct 13, 2026$0.44$1.10
Oct 12, 2026$0.45$1.10
Oct 10, 2026$0.46$1.10
Oct 7, 2026$0.47$1.10
Oct 4, 2026$0.46$1.11
Oct 3, 2026$0.43$1.11
Oct 2, 2026$0.44$1.11
Oct 1, 2026$0.43$1.11
Sep 30, 2026$0.43$1.14
Sep 29, 2026$0.43$1.21
Sep 28, 2026$0.45$1.21

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Wash Away

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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Wash Away. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.