The Toymaker's Trap
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, secretly choose a number between 1 and 5 that hasn't been chosen. If you do, an opponent guesses which number you chose, then you reveal the number you chose. If they guessed wrong, they lose life equal to the number they guessed and you draw a card. If they guessed right, sacrifice this enchantment.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #13173
The Toymaker's Trap turns every nonland permanent an opponent controls into a Toy artifact token — a full board reset that replaces threats with 1/1 vanilla bodies — and it does it at instant speed for five mana. Outside of The Celestial Toymaker decks that actively want Toys on the board, this is a haymaker removal spell with a built-in upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker runs The Toymaker's Trap as one of its signature payoffs — the Toy tokens the Trap creates feed directly into the commander's ability to animate and weaponize them, turning a sweeper into an engine refuel.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
The Toymaker's Trap is a Commander card through and through — the politics, the scale of the effect across multiple opponents' boards, and the synergy with Toy-matters strategies all point there. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a conditional sweeper has no competitive application in formats where the game ends faster. Commander is where The Toymaker's Trap actually functions as designed: clearing a threat-dense board while leaving behind a pile of artifact tokens that some decks treat as a resource rather than a consolation prize.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, The Toymaker's Trap is bulk, which is surprising given how efficiently it functions in its home deck. Bulk rare pricing usually signals limited demand outside one niche, and that's accurate here — outside The Celestial Toymaker builds, it's unlikely to spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.