Lantern Flare
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Cleave 
Lantern Flare deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. [X is the number of creatures you control.]
Illustrated by Lie Setiawan
Rulings (5)
Nov 19, 2021
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.
Nov 19, 2021
If an effect allows you to "cast a spell without paying its mana cost," you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.
Nov 19, 2021
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.
Nov 19, 2021
If you're paying the cleave cost, you choose the value of X.
Nov 19, 2021
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.
