Cobra Trap

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Name	Cobra Trap
Type	Instant — trap
Description	If a noncreature permanent under your control was destroyed this turn by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Create four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.
Artist	Scott Chou
Set	Commander 2015 #180
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Cobra Trap

Cobra Trap, Instant — trap, designed by Scott Chou first released in Oct, 2009 in the set Zendikar and was printed exactly in 3 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 2.05.

A deck that focuses on protecting or sacrificing noncreature permanents would benefit from including Cobra Trap, as it offers a potential mana discount for a powerful token generation effect. While Cobra Trap could be useful in decks built around synergies involving noncreature permanents, there may be better options available such as cards like Beast Within or Song of the Dryads for removal, or Parallel Lives for token generation, which may be more versatile in a variety of situations. Whether or not Cobra Trap should see play would depend on the specific strategy and synergies of the deck in question.

Rules

10/01/09

Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.

10/01/09

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.

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