Archive Trap
Instant — Trap
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2003
- Illustrator
- Jason Felix
Constructed
Commander
Arena
Other
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
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Rulings
8 · latest Oct 1, 2009
- WotCOct 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.
- WotCOct 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.
- 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
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.
- WotCOct 1, 2009
If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
- WotCOct 1, 2009
The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.
- 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.