Balduvian Frostwaker
Creature — Human Wizard
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: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #25346
Balduvian Frostwaker turns any snow land into a 2/2 blue Spirit with flying and islandwalk — on demand, at instant speed, for two mana. The cost is the land itself: you're sacrificing a mana source to make a threat, which means this card lives or dies by how snow-land-dense your deck is.
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 |
Balduvian Frostwaker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially zero competitive play outside of Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the effect is simply too slow and card-disadvantageous to matter. Modern snow synergies have never been strong enough to make a land-sacrificing 2/2 factory relevant. Commander is the only format where Balduvian Frostwaker finds a real home — specifically in snow-tribal or Azorius/Dimir/Sultai snow builds where the board presence it generates lap-by-lap outpaces the land loss.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Balduvian Frostwaker is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box or add to a cart to hit free shipping. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a Commander precon or new snow commander pushes snow synergies into the mainstream.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.