Pitfall Trap
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Modern Masters 2017MM3 · #18
- Card type
- Instant — Trap
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.03 € · ★ 0.18 € · 0.18 $ · ★ 0.23 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card text
If exactly one creature is attacking, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target attacking creature without flying.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Franz Vohwinkel
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-03-17
Flavour text
Each spike is poisoned—the trapmaker's idea of mercy.
Rulings
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.
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.
