rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Create four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.No reference price for this printing yet: not enough stores to make an average.
Run a comparison: we query the stores live, it may have arrived this morning.
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 CoastA spell or ability destroys a permanent only if that spell or ability specifically contains the word “destroy” in its text. If a spell or ability an opponent controls exiles a noncreature permanent you control, causes you to sacrifice a noncreature permanent, removes all loyalty counters from a planeswalker you control, or causes an ability you control to trigger (and then that ability destroys a permanent you control), Cobra Trap’s alternative cost condition hasn’t been met.
2009-10-01 · Wizards of the CoastEffects 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 CoastYou 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
Fetch & Shock Games
The CG Realm · Condition DMG
Dragon Cards & Games · Condition MP
