Mindbreak Trap (Zendikar) - Gatherer

Mindbreak Trap

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Community Rating: 4.512 / 5 (252 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Mindbreak Trap

Mana Cost:

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Types:

Instant — Trap

Card Text:

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay

rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost.

Exile any number of target spells.

Flavor Text:

"Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends."

—Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Expansion:

Zendikar

Rarity:

Mythic Rare

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Artist:

Christopher Moeller

Language:

English

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	Mindbreak Trap's alternative cost condition checks whether an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, not whether those spells have resolved.
10/1/2009	If a spell is exiled, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works on spells that can't be countered, such as Terra Stomper.