Oracle Text
If a noncreature permanent under your control was destroyed this turn by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay 
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Create four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.
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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.
A spell or ability destroys a permanent only if that spell or ability specifically contains the word “destroy” in its text. If a spell or ability an opponent controls exiles a noncreature permanent you control, causes you to sacrifice a noncreature permanent, removes all loyalty counters from a planeswalker you control, or causes an ability you control to trigger (and then that ability destroys a permanent you control), Cobra Trap’s alternative cost condition hasn’t been met.
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
Print Details
- Set
- Zendikar (ZEN)
- Number
- #160
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Artist
- Scott Chou
- Frame
- 2003
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $0.19
- USD Foil
- $0.37
- EUR
- €0.30
- EUR Foil
- €0.37
- MTGO Tix
- 0.03
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