Whiplash Trap
Zendikar (ZEN) #77 · Common · Instant — Trap
Mana cost: {3}{U}{U}
If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay {U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.
Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai · Released October 2, 2009
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.18 USD · €0.05 EUR
- Foil: $0.44 USD · €0.62 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.05 USD (38.5%) to $0.18 USD; low $0.13 USD, high $0.18 USD.
Printings
- Commander 2020 #127 (C20) · Common · 2020 · $0.23 USD
- The List #DDN-70 (PLST) · Common · 2019 · $0.28 USD
- Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning #70 (DDN) · Common · 2014 · $0.18 USD
- Zendikar #77 (this printing) · Common · 2009 · $0.18 USD
- Planechase #16 (HOP) · Common · 2009 · $0.35 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — You must target two creatures as you cast Whiplash Trap. If you can't (because just one creature is on the battlefield, perhaps), you can't cast the spell.
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — You can target any two creatures, not just ones that entered this turn.
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — 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.
- 2009-10-01 · wotc — 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.