Swampsnare Trap
Enchantment — Aura
This spell costs 
less to cast if it targets a creature with flying.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -5/-3.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #17805
Swampsnare Trap puts a creature into its owner's library — not the graveyard — for up to three mana if an opponent controls a Swamp, making it a hard answer to reanimator targets and recursion engines. Outside of Swamp-heavy tables it costs a flat three, which is acceptable for a tuck effect but not exciting.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Swampsnare Trap earns its slot primarily at tables running black — the reduced cost is trivially easy to trigger, and tucking a creature dodges graveyard synergies entirely, which matters against Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Karador, Ghost Chieftain, and similar commanders who want things dead. In Modern and Pioneer, the conditional discount is harder to rely on, and Path to Exile and Prismatic Ending answer creatures more efficiently without the setup requirement. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster interaction at lower opportunity cost, so Swampsnare Trap doesn't make the cut there. Pauper is where the tuck effect has the most novelty, since common-legal exile is scarce and library shuffling is a genuine answer to recursion at that power level.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Swampsnare Trap is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any market demand. That price is stable in the sense that bulk common floors rarely move, but there's no collector or competitive pressure to push it higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.