Archive Trap
Instant β Trap
Archive Trap
Instant β 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.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 5
- Colors
- Blue
- Color Identity
- Blue
- EDHREC Rank
- #5,781
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (18)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | en | William Tempest | $0.59 | $1.40 |
| The List (PLST) | #ZEN-41 | rare | en | Jason Felix | $2.20 | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | en | Jason Felix | $1.89 | $15.09 |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | de | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | de | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | es | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | es | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | fr | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | fr | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | it | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | it | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | ja | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | ja | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | pt | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | pt | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | ru | Jason Felix | β | β |
| Breaking News (OTP) | #7 | rare | zhs | William Tempest | β | β |
| Zendikar (ZEN) | #41 | rare | zhs | Jason Felix | β | β |
Official Rulings (8)
A spell or ability causes a player to search their library only if it specifically contains the word βsearchβ 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, thatβs not a search.
Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesnβt matter whether that player found a card during the search.
You may ignore a Trapβs alternative cost condition and simply cast it for its normal mana cost. This is true even if its alternative cost condition has been met.
Casting a Trap by paying its alternative cost doesnβt change its mana cost or mana value. The only difference is the cost you actually pay.
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
If a search effect is affected by Aven Mindcensorβs ability (which causes a player to search the top four cards of their library instead), that still counts as searching that library.
The opponent you target doesnβt have to be the opponent who searched their library.
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