Cobra Trap
Instant — Trap
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2003
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 1067
- Illustrator
- Scott Chou
- Found in
- Zendikar MTGO Redemption Foil · Zendikar MTGO Redemption · 2 more
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Create four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.Plays as: Cost Alternative · Creature Token Maker
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4 · latest Oct 1, 2009 · one tap opens all
- WotCOct 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.
- 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 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.