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

Archive Trap

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 4.483 / 5 (206 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Archive Trap

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant — Trap

Card Text:

If an opponent searched his or her library this turn, you may pay

rather than pay Archive Trap's mana cost.

Target opponent puts the top thirteen cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Expansion:

Zendikar

Rarity:

Rare

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Artist:

Jason Felix

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	Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesn't matter whether that player found a card during the search.
10/1/2009	A spell or ability causes a player to search their library only if it specifically contains the word "search" in its text. For example, if a spell or ability lets a player look at the top four cards of their library and do something with one of those cards, that's not a search.
10/1/2009	If a search effect is affected by Aven Mindcensor's ability (which causes a player to search the top four cards of their library instead), that still counts as searching that library.
10/1/2009	The opponent you target doesn't have to be the opponent who searched their library.
10/1/2009	If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.