Archive Trap (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Breaking News) - Gatherer

Archive Trap

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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Archive Trap

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant — Trap

Card Text:

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Flavor Text:

Heist Shocker! Supposedly Invincible Vault Vinced!

Expansion:

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Breaking News

Rarity:

Rare

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Card Number:

Artist:

William Tempest

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.