The Toymaker's Trap
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Doctor Who #966 (rare)
At the beginning of your upkeep, secretly choose a number between 1 and 5 that hasn't been chosen. If you do, an opponent guesses which number you chose, then you reveal the number you chose. If they guessed wrong, they lose life equal to the number they guessed and you draw a card. If they guessed right, sacrifice this enchantment.
The Toymaker's Trap has 4 printings, first in Doctor Who (2023). EDHREC ranks it #13,722 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Celestial Toymaker decks (2,871 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run The Toymaker's Trap
- Masters of Evil - Doctor Who, led by Davros, Dalek Creator
Commanders that run The Toymaker's Trap most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Celestial Toymaker: 2,871 decks
- The Valeyard: 615 decks
- Gollum, Scheming Guide: 164 decks
- Missy: 163 decks
- Vislor Turlough: 2 decks
Often played with The Toymaker's Trap
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If The Toymaker's Trap leaves the battlefield and later returns to the battlefield, it has no memory of which numbers were chosen for its effect before. The same is true if you control a second copy of it.
- : To secretly choose a number, write a number from 1 to 5 down without showing it to anyone else.