Printings
Cobra Trap
Card Information
Type: Instant — Trap
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 6
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Zendikar (ZEN)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 160
Oracle Text
If a noncreature permanent under your control was destroyed this turn by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay {G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Create four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.
Format Legalities
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Card Rulings
- October 1, 2009
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.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2009
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.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2009
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2009
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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