Oracle 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.
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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.
Archive Trap checks only whether an opponent searched their library. It doesn’t matter whether that player found a card during the search.
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.
Print Details
- Set
- Zendikar (ZEN)
- Number
- #41
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Jason Felix
- Frame
- 2003
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $1.81
- USD Foil
- $24.89
- EUR
- €2.24
- EUR Foil
- €25.16
- MTGO Tix
- 0.47
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