Arrow Volley Trap
Instant — Trap
If four or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25632
Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided among any number of attacking creatures — at instant speed, for as little as one mana when four or more creatures swung at you. The ceiling is absurd for a Trap, but the floor (five mana, sorcery-speed-equivalent timing, no other modes) means it earns a slot only if token swarms and go-wide aggro are a real problem in your meta.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Arrow Volley Trap is a Commander card through and through — the format's multiplayer combat, token-heavy strategies, and occasional alpha strikes are exactly the conditions that trigger it cheaply and make the five-damage spread relevant. In Legacy or Vintage, nobody is attacking you with four creatures while you're holding up interaction, and there are strictly better options for damage-based sweepers, so Arrow Volley Trap sees essentially zero play there. Modern is legal but similarly hostile to it — the format is too fast and too spell-centric for a conditional combat trick that only punishes creature-wide attacks. Stick to Commander if you're going to run it at all.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Arrow Volley Trap is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price will hold indefinitely; there's no spike coming for a narrow, five-mana conditional instant with no reprint ceiling to worry about.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.