Archive Trap

Commanders that run Archive Trap most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

• Bruvac the Grandiloquent: 3,686 decks
• Captain N'ghathrod: 1,675 decks
• Hope Estheim: 1,408 decks
• Saruman of Many Colors: 638 decks
• Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker: 409 decks
• Lord Xander, the Collector: 407 decks
• Lazav, Dimir Mastermind: 380 decks
• The Ancient One: 196 decks

Often played with Archive Trap

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

• Sanity Grinding
• Mind Sculpt
• Permafrost Trap
• Lethargy Trap
• Startled Awake
• Needlebite Trap
• Riddlekeeper
• Drowned Secrets
• Manic Scribe
• Ricochet Trap

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: 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: 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 the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
• 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: The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.