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Archive Trap

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Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Card Information

Color: U
Identifies: U
Cost:
CMC: 5
Types: Instant
Subtypes: Trap
Rarity: rare
Languages:
Layout: normal
Rank:
#5,869
Saltiness:
0.24 / 4.0

Official Rulings

2009-10-01
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.
2009-10-01
Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesn’t matter whether that player found a card during the search.
2009-10-01
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.
2009-10-01
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
2009-10-01
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.
2009-10-01
If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
2009-10-01
The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.
2009-10-01
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.

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