Archive Trap Price
3 printings · 3 sets · first printed 2009
Archive Trap has been printed 3 times across 3 sets, first in 2009 and most recently in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Breaking News #7 at $1.03, while the most expensive is The List #ZEN-41 at $2.30 — about 2× more. The median across 3 priced printings is $1.80. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 3x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (The List).
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Every Archive Trap Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breaking News #7 (R) Cheapest | 2024 | $1.03 | $0.50 |
| Zendikar #41 (R) | 2009 | $1.80 | $0.70 |
| The List #ZEN-41 (R) | 2021 | $2.30 | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 3 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
8 PrecedentsA 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.
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.
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
If the targeted opponent has fewer than thirteen cards in their library, that player puts their entire library into their graveyard.
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.
The opponent you target doesn’t have to be the opponent who searched their library.