Archive Trap
Instant - Trap
Artist:
Jason FelixShare:
Text:
If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
Rulings:
- 10/1/2009 You may ignore a Trap’s alternative cost condition and simply cast it for its normal mana cost. This is true even if its alternative cost condition has been met.
- 10/1/2009 Casting a Trap by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change its mana cost or converted mana cost. The only difference is the cost you actually pay.
- 10/1/2009 Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
- 10/1/2009 Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesn’t matter whether that player found a card during the search.
- 10/1/2009 A spell or ability causes a player to search their library only if it specifically contains the word “search” in its text. For example, if a spell or ability lets a player look at the top four cards of their library and do something with one of those cards, that’s not a search.
- 10/1/2009 If a search effect is affected by Aven Mindcensor’s ability (which causes a player to search the top four cards of their library instead), that still counts as searching that library.
- 10/1/2009 The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.
- 10/1/2009 If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
Legality:
- standard: Not legal
- future: Not legal
- frontier: Not legal
- modern: Legal
- legacy: Legal
- pauper: Not legal
- vintage: Legal
- penny: Not legal
- commander: Legal
- 1v1: Legal
- duel: Legal
- brawl: Legal
- oldschool: Not legal
- historic: Legal
- pioneer: Not legal
- gladiator: Legal
- premodern: Not legal
- historicbrawl: Not legal
- paupercommander: Not legal
- alchemy: Not legal
- explorer: Not legal
- predh: Legal
- oathbreaker: Legal
- timeless: Legal
- standardbrawl: Not legal
Sets:
- Zendikar #41 (rare)
- The List #355 (rare)
- The List #ZEN-41 (rare)