Lavaball Trap (Zendikar) - Gatherer

Lavaball Trap

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 3.198 / 5 (58 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Lavaball Trap

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant — Trap

Card Text:

If an opponent had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Destroy two target lands. Lavaball Trap deals 4 damage to each creature.

Expansion:

Zendikar

Rarity:

Rare

Card Number:

135

Artist:

Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

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 mana value. 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	You may target any two lands, not just ones that entered the battlefield this turn.
10/1/2009	All creatures are dealt damage, not just ones controlled by the targeted lands' controller(s).
10/1/2009	If both targeted lands are illegal targets by the time Lavaball Trap resolves, the entire spell doesn't resolve. No creatures are dealt damage.