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Breaking News (OTP | #7 | 2024-04-19)
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Archive Trap

3UU
Instant — Trap
Artist: William Tempest
All artists: William Tempest , Jason Felix

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.

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$0.94 cheapest print

Prices

Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
Breaking News 7 Borderless Nonfoil $0.94
Breaking News 7 Borderless Foil $1.87
Zendikar 41 Regular Nonfoil $1.92
Zendikar 41 Regular Foil $15.09
The List ZEN-41 Regular Nonfoil $2.22

Price History

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Printings (3)

Archive Trap — Breaking News
Breaking News
#7 Rare $0.94
Borderless Nonfoil Foil
William Tempest
Archive Trap — Zendikar
Zendikar
#41 Rare $1.92
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Jason Felix
Archive Trap — The List
The List
#ZEN-41 Rare $2.22
Regular Nonfoil
Jason Felix

Rulings

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

Format Legality

Standard Not Legal
Future Not Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Gladiator Legal
Pioneer Not Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Not Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not Legal
Brawl Legal
Alchemy Not Legal
Paupercommander Not Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Not Legal
Premodern Not Legal
Predh Legal