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Archive Trap

Blue

3 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Archive Trap, Breaking News printing
Breaking News OTP · No. 7 2024-04-19

Card text

{3}{U}{U}
Instant — Trap
If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
Keywords: Mill
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EDHREC rank #5879 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 3 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ∅ Not legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

8 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

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.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesn’t matter whether that player found a card during the search.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

Casting a Trap by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change its mana cost or mana value. The only difference is the cost you actually pay.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.

2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast

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