Mindbreak Trap
Zendikar · #57 · Mythic
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Instant — Trap
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay 
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.
"Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends."
—Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage
Card details
- Shown printing
- Zendikar (ZEN)
- Artist
- Christopher Moeller
- Color identity
- Blue
- Colors
- Blue
- Mana value
- 4
- First released
- October 2, 2009
- Printings
- 5
- EDHREC rank
- #554 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $6.25 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHLegal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (3)
For Mindbreak Trap's alternative cost to apply, a single opponent must cast three or more spells. Three opponents each casting a single spell won't work, for example.
If a spell is exiled, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works on spells that can't be countered.
Mindbreak Trap's alternative cost condition checks whether an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, not whether those spells have resolved.
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