Lavaball Trap

Lavaball Trap

Instant — Trap

Mana cost: {6}{R}{R}

How we read this card

If an opponent had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay {3}{R}{R} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy two target lands. Lavaball Trap deals 4 damage to each creature.

on-cast —

on-cast — deals 4 damage

Causes: a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a creature deals noncombat damage.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a land in a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

Lavaball Trap puts cards into the:

  1. Dread Tiller — graveyard that Dread Tiller can bring back
  2. Sparring Dummy — graveyard that Sparring Dummy can bring back
  3. Waking the Trolls — graveyard that Waking the Trolls can bring back
  4. Soul of Windgrace — graveyard that Soul of Windgrace can bring back
  5. Patient Naturalist — graveyard that Patient Naturalist can bring back
  6. Blanchwood Prowler — graveyard that Blanchwood Prowler can bring back
  7. Fall of the Thran — graveyard that Fall of the Thran can bring back
  8. Mind Roots — graveyard that Mind Roots can bring back
  9. Centaur Vinecrasher — graveyard, and Centaur Vinecrasher gets bigger
  10. Terravore — graveyard, and Terravore gets bigger

121 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 636 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

When a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Lavaball Trap:

  1. Vastwood Zendikon — brings a card back
  2. Nissa's Zendikon — brings a card back
  3. Corrupted Zendikon — brings a card back
  4. Guardian Zendikon — brings a card back
  5. Crusher Zendikon — brings a card back
  6. Wind Zendikon — brings a card back
  7. Akki Raider — gets +1/+0
  8. Dingus Egg — deals 2 damage
  9. Genju of the Realm — returns itself from the graveyard

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

When Lavaball Trap deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
  3. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  5. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  6. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  7. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  8. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  9. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  10. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

36 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

When Lavaball Trap is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Glacierwood Siege — mills a card
  3. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
  4. Tor Wauki the Younger — deals 2 damage
  5. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  6. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  7. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  8. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  9. Artist's Talent — draws and discards
  10. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell

427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

  1. Heart-Shaped Herb — Lavaball Trap puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  2. Enlightened Confidant — Lavaball Trap puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  3. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Lavaball Trap puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back
  4. Grazing Kelpie — Lavaball Trap puts cards into the graveyard that Grazing Kelpie can bring back
  5. Dauthi Voidwalker — Cards Lavaball Trap would put into an opponent's graveyard are exiled by Dauthi Voidwalker instead, and it can play from among them
  6. Endurance — Lavaball Trap puts cards into the graveyard that Endurance can bring back
  7. Thieves' Guild Enforcer — Lavaball Trap fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Thieves' Guild Enforcer needs
  8. Soaring Thought-Thief — Lavaball Trap fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Soaring Thought-Thief needs
  9. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Lavaball Trap puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back
  10. Merfolk Windrobber — Lavaball Trap fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Merfolk Windrobber needs

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

When a land hits the graveyard thanks to Lavaball Trap:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  5. Planar Void — hits a graveyard

6 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is dealt damage — 18,923 cards in the game can cause this (Lavaball Trap is one).

When a creature is dealt damage thanks to Lavaball Trap:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Shriveling Rot — kills it
  3. Cryoshatter — kills a creature
  4. Hot Soup — kills a creature
  5. Cracked Skull — kills a creature
  6. Sporogenic Infection — kills a creature

21 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.