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Community Rating: 4.512 / 5 ( 252 votes ) Click here to view ratings and comments. Oracle Printed Card Name: Mindbreak Trap Mana Cost: Converted Mana Cost: 4 Types: Instant — Trap Card Text: rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may payrather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells. Flavor Text: "Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends." —Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage Expansion: Zendikar Rarity: Mythic Rare Card Number: 57 Artist: Christopher Moeller Rulings 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. Casting a Trap by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change its mana cost or converted mana cost. 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. Mindbreak Trap’s alternative cost condition checks whether an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, not whether those spells have resolved. 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, such as Terra Stomper.