Lavaball Trap
Zendikar · #135 · Rare

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Instant — Trap
If an opponent had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy two target lands. Lavaball Trap deals 4 damage to each creature.
Card details
- Shown printing
- Zendikar (ZEN)
- Artist
- Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
- Color identity
- Red
- Colors
- Red
- Mana value
- 8
- First released
- October 2, 2009
- Printings
- 1
- EDHREC rank
- #23165 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.34 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHLegal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (6)
All creatures are dealt damage, not just ones controlled by the targeted lands' controller(s).
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 both targeted lands are illegal targets by the time Lavaball Trap resolves, the entire spell doesn't resolve. No creatures are dealt damage.
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.
You may target any two lands, not just ones that entered this turn.
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