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Archive Trap
Instant — Trap
3
U
U
If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
Mana cost
3
U
U
Mana value
5
Printings
From
$1.02
EDHREC rank
#5763
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Formats
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Rulings
1 Oct 2009
If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
1 Oct 2009
The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.
1 Oct 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.
1 Oct 2009
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
1 Oct 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.
1 Oct 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.
1 Oct 2009
Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesn’t matter whether that player found a card during the search.
1 Oct 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.

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