Whiplash Trap (Zendikar) - Gatherer

Whiplash Trap

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 3.795 / 5 (73 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Whiplash Trap

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant — Trap

Card Text:

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

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Expansion:

Zendikar

Rarity:

Common

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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 must target two creatures as you cast Whiplash Trap. If you can't (because just one creature is on the battlefield, perhaps), you can't cast the spell.
10/1/2009	You can target any two creatures, not just ones that entered this turn.