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Alchemist's Retrieval
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Oracle Data
(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.
"To most, a terrifying apparition. To a necro-alchemist, a potent fuel source."
Official Judge Precedents
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.
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.
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.
If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.
