Nemesis Trap
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SetWWK
Collector #61
Released2010-02-05
Rarityuncommon
ArtistRyan Pancoast
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Nemesis Trap

UncommonColour IDMV 6
Instant — Trap
If a white creature is attacking, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile target attacking creature. Create a token that's a copy of that creature. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2011-06-17Newest 2011-06-17Cheapest priced $0.17 in CMD
Rulings (9)
wotc1 Mar 2010
If the exiled creature was copying something else (for example, if it was a Jwari Shapeshifter), then your token enters as a copy of whatever the exiled creature was copying.
wotc1 Mar 2010
If the exiled creature has {X} in its mana cost (such as Protean Hydra), X is considered to be zero.
wotc1 Mar 2010
An "attacking creature" is one that has been declared as an attacker this combat, or one that was put onto the battlefield attacking this combat. Unless that creature leaves combat, it continues to be an attacking creature through the end of combat step, even if the player it was attacking has left the game, or the planeswalker it was attacking has left combat.
wotc1 Mar 2010
Any "enters" abilities of the exiled creature will trigger when the token is put onto the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
wotc1 Mar 2010
The token you put onto the battlefield copies exactly what was printed on the exiled creature and nothing more (unless it was copying something else or it was a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether the exiled creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. For example, if Nemesis Trap targets an animated Celestial Colonnade, the token you put onto the battlefield will be a Celestial Colonnade that's just a land. (Because of this, Nemesis Trap has received minor errata to specify that you put a token, not a "creature token," onto the battlefield.)
wotc1 Mar 2010
If you cast Nemesis Trap for {B}{B}, you may still target any attacking creature, not just the white attacking creature.