Uncommon · Zendikar

Needlebite Trap

Instant — Trap

If an opponent gained life this turn, you may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Target player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

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How it plays

What it wants, and what it gives

Read from the rules text. A card that enables a keyword makes or is the thing; a card that rewards it gets better when you have it. Two cards interact when one enables what the other rewards.

It rewards

rewardsBig mana & X spellsKeyword page →Produces a lot of mana, or has somewhere to sink it.426 cards enable Big mana & X spells

It enables

enablesLife drainKeyword page →Makes opponents lose life, or triggers when they do.42 cards reward Life drain Lifegain

Works well with

Cards that click with it

rewardsBig mana & X spellsmeetsenablesBig mana & X spells426 cards enable it

Price

Lowest printing, from Scryfall.

US market$0.23

EU market$0.20

Foil, lowest$0.41

Price history: Zendikar #105

Non-foil
Foil

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Date	Non-foil	Foil
12 Nov 2026	$0.23	$0.41
11 Nov 2026	$0.23	$0.41

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