Whiplash Trap
Instant — Trap
DDNDuel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning#70common
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Illustrator
- Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
Constructed
StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
Commander
CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
Arena
AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
Other
PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.Plays as:
Cost AlternativeBounce
Market · per finishtrend updated 7h ago · prices as of Oct 15, 2026
Nonfoil$0.19-24.0%$0.06 low$0.05 gap
Nonfoil$0.19-24.0%30DLowest listing
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Duel Deck Speed vs Cunning Cunning Deck
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Rulings
5 · latest Oct 1, 2009
- WotCOct 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.
- WotCOct 1, 2009
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
- WotCOct 1, 2009
You can target any two creatures, not just ones that entered this turn.
- WotCOct 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.
- WotCOct 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.