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Instant — Trap · ZEN #77 · common
Whiplash Trap
$0.12
versions · 5 printings
format pulse
- standard not legal
- pioneer not legal
- modern legal
- legacy legal
- vintage legal
- commander legal
- pauper legal
EDHREC #15598
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If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay {U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.
rulings
- 2009-10-01You must target two creatures as you cast Whiplash Trap. If you can't (because just one creature is on the battlefield, perhaps), you can't cast the spell.
- 2009-10-01Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
- 2009-10-01You can target any two creatures, not just ones that entered this turn.
- 2009-10-01Casting 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.
- 2009-10-01You 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.