Archive Trap
Instant — 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.
- Set
- The List (PLST #ZEN-41)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2021-04-24
- Artist
- Jason Felix
- EDHREC rank
- #5,754
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
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.