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It isnt fun after u reveal your trap card to your opponent. =\

There are so many diverse traps. This really allows for toolbox style trap decks.

And while it ruins the surprise, your opponent still doesn't know about the traps you're already holding. Or, once you've hard-cast the tutored trap as a spell, that you have a duplicate waiting in your hand. It's time for a game of Magic: the Bluffing. Too much fun.

Although tutoring trap cards is a bit messy since it prepares your opponent, this is still a cheap card which is worth using.
On top of that you don't always have to wait for your opponent since you can have ways to pay the alternate trap cost no matter whether you opponent wants to do so or not.
I like the card, definitely worth using in constructed. Reminds me of Merchant Scroll.

How about all those 0 cost Traps? You could find one and cast it immediately. Seems like a nice sideboard idea.

This is by far one of the best cards this game has ever seen, remember, your traps alternative cost can be used as long as the opponent did the required event even if the trap wasn't in your hand, that means you can use this card right after your opponent did something you have a trap for (its an instant!) and search your deck for the correct trap, and bam, trap goes into effect. It makes all that waiting hopefully for your opponent to do the right thing very smooth, and actually allows you to play a trap deck instead of having a hand full of traps you can't necessarily use.

As a general rule, I think this is best if after you pull the trap, you play it immediately.

This card would be MUCH more interesting if it somehow was able to search your library for two trap cards and putting one of them in your hand and shuffle the other one into your library without your opponent knowing which one you picked

This + Archive trap + Path to Exile, bye bye critter, and I *dare* you to find a land.

The fact that Trapmaker's Snare is an Instant and puts the tutored Trap into your hand makes this quite good. Don't forget that you can cast the tutored Trap before letting anything resolve on the stack.

this doesnt prepare him because it is an instant.
you play this, followed by the trap.
then he sees it anyway.

Does excatly what it says. Good card.
3.0

I thought this card was silly at first. "It finds you a trap... but you have to reveal it to your opponent so they know what it is!" But then I realized it's an instant, so the trap may as well be in your hand anyway.

What's that, Admiral?

They messed up by making you reveal your trap. It's still decent as it is, but would have been better and more flavorful without making you reveal the trap.

Hey guess what? Here comes a trap!

Oh...shoot, that was supposed to be a surprise, wasn't it?

Put this on Isochron Scepter and just search traps ALL THE TIME.
The deck is called "There's a trap for that."

Oh cool, it's your 5th-8th Mindbreak Trap at Negate's mana cost. Sweet.

It's a trap!

one more reason why two untapped Islands across the table means DONT DO ANYTHING.
wait- is there a trap that triggers if an opponent doesnt cast any spells, activate any abilities, or attack during a turn? there should be lol.

yeah, its lamesauce you have to reveal. I know that it being an instant means it shouldnt matter...but still, ITS A TRAP!

btw- any comment on any trap card that references YuGiOh should be flagged. any comment on any trap card that references Admiral Ackbar, or the ABRIDGED YuGiOh series, should get an automatic 5 stars.

and if you say
Screw the Rules, It's a TRAP!
you win the internet :)

This makes me want to build a trap deck, then I remember how bad most of the traps are

Look at cards like Armillary Sphere, Captain Sisay, Eladamri's Call, Clutch of the Undercity and Enlightened Tutor to recognize that any time you are prompted to search for a specific type of card it must be revealed to prove that you didn't just cheat and act like you played a Demonic Tutor.

Twincast and this card can make an Archive Trap deck pretty fast.

Ok, i'm going to take Mirror Force.

Oops, wrong game.

Having to reveal it just kills this card. I know that to make sure you actually did search a trap it has to, but what is the point in a trap if your opponent knows what it is?

I like how Trapmaker's Snare makes you reveal the trap. It's like: "I just took Summoning Trap. Now, are you sure you have 2 counters before messing with this eldrazi?". You know, that even-the-threat-of-power-has-power thing.

You know what would make this card more sneaky? Having you reveal 3 or more traps and adding one to your hand without revealing to your opponent which one.

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In my playgroup, for this card, instead of revealing the trap, the caster sets the trap face down on the table, and then flips it over when casting it. Since this is instant speed, normally one would play this and then immediately play the trap, however.

Mmkay, I'm a little confused. Why the complaints about the "show" clause? Traps are all instants and have a super cheap cost in the right conditions, and this card is pretty cheap. Why would anyone EVER plan to use this card and cast the trap later? It boggles the mind. Casting the trap later is like using Dispatch to tap your opponent's Goblin Arsonist on his turn two.

Showing the card is essential to show you didn't tutor up a non-trap card. It shouldn't be a problem because you CAST THE TRAP IMMEDIATELY.

Did you just cast a bunch of instants in one turn? Screw the rules! I have green hair! - wait, that's not against the rules. Sorry, I should probably cut down on the drugs.

Running a trap deck feels like I'm playing Yu-Gi-Oh, activating trap cards all over the place and whatnot.

Being that it's a Trapmaker's *Snare*, I would expect this card to be a trap...

Also, for all you nay-sayers, I'm pretty sure the intention was for you to cast your trap immediately after tutoring, so it's like the snare caught them into the next trap. Sure they see it, but they're already caught in the snare, helpless to avoid it.

lol at all the spoils the surprise comments. You search for a trap and immediately play it

I'm surprised nobody else brought this up:

DAT ART... AND DAT FLAVOR... SO GOOD...

It literally says "trap card". That's cute. :p
Style points for having "battle of wits" in the flavour text.

It doesn't actually matter that you reveal the card; you're meant to cast this when you can already cast the trap for 0.