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Cards similar to Archive Trap (18)

Startled Awake  Persistent Nightmare

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Sorcery // Creature — Nightmare (0/0)

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
: Put Startled Awake from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Persistent Nightmare

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
When Persistent Nightmare deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

6.3 /10
$0.96
Dichotomancy

Dichotomancy

Sorcery

For each tapped nonland permanent target opponent controls, search that player's library for a card with the same name as that permanent. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control, then that player shuffles.
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

1.2 /10
$0.22
Ravenous Trap

Ravenous Trap

Instant — Trap

If an opponent had three or more cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile target player's graveyard.

4.1 /10
$0.20
Tibalts Trickery

Tibalt's Trickery

Instant

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

9.8 /10
$8.07
Xanders Pact

Xander's Pact

Sorcery

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to that spell's mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

6.1 /10
$0.15
Ashiok Nightmare Muse

Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok

+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library."
-3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand.
-7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

8.3 /10
$3.56
Bismuth Mindrender

Bismuth Mindrender

Creature — Eldrazi (4/3)

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Menace
Whenever Bismuth Mindrender deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast that card by paying life equal to the spell's mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

6.9 /10
$0.24
Blessed Reincarnation

Blessed Reincarnation

Instant

Exile target creature an opponent controls. That player reveals cards from the top of their library until a creature card is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

3.6 /10
$0.13
Broken Ambitions

Broken Ambitions

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller mills four cards. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

5.5 /10
$0.16
Chaos Wand

Chaos Wand

Artifact

, : Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of that library in a random order.

9.1 /10
$0.16
Crabomination

Crabomination

Creature — Crab Demon (5/5)

Emerge from artifact (You may cast this spell by sacrificing an artifact and paying the emerge cost reduced by that artifact's mana value.)
When Crabomination enters, target opponent exiles the top card of their library, a card at random from their graveyard, and a card at random from their hand. You may cast a spell from among cards exiled this way without paying its mana cost.

6.6 /10
$0.23
Detritivore

Detritivore

Creature — Lhurgoyf (0/0)

Detritivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of nonbasic land cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Suspend X—. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever a time counter is removed from Detritivore while it's exiled, destroy target nonbasic land.

5.7 /10
$6.28
Drill Bit

Drill Bit

Sorcery

Spectacle (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

3.4 /10
$0.07
Fervent Mastery

Fervent Mastery

Sorcery

You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the cost was paid, an opponent discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
Search your library for up to three cards, put them into your hand, shuffle, then discard three cards at random.

6.5 /10
$0.13
Gix Yawgmoth Praetor

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor (3/3)

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

9.3 /10
~$15
Inevitable Betrayal

Inevitable Betrayal

Sorcery

Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

9.2 /10
$0.63
Lavaball Trap

Lavaball Trap

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.

3.2 /10
$0.23
Nicol Bolas GodPharaoh

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas

+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
+1: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand.
-4: Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.
-12: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

8.7 /10
$2.78

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