Cobra Trap (Zendikar) - Gatherer - Magic: The Gathering

Cobra Trap

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Community Rating: 3.326 / 5 (46 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Cobra Trap

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant — Trap

Card Text:

If a noncreature permanent under your control was destroyed this turn by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay Green

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Create four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.

Expansion:

Zendikar

Rarity:

Uncommon

All Sets:

Card Number:

160

Artist:

Scott Chou

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	A 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.