Blessing of Frost

Snow Sorcery

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of creatures you control, where X is the amount of {S} spent to cast this spell. Then draw a card for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Kaldheim Promos
Price
EDHREC rank
#11212
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Blessing of Frost card art
Blessing of Frost draws cards and distributes +1/+1 counters across your whole board in a single shot — the impact scales directly with how many creatures you have in play. Isu the Abominable turns every snow land into a counter, so Blessing of Frost frequently replaces itself three or four times over the moment it resolves.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Isu the Abominable

Isu the Abominable

85.7% of decks · synergy 0.85

Isu the Abominable stacks +1/+1 counters passively every turn, so Blessing of Frost arrives to a board already loaded with them — the snow count on your creatures translates directly into cards drawn, often refilling your hand completely in the mid-game.

02

Jorn, God of Winter

67.2% of decks · synergy 0.66

Jorn, God of Winter untaps snow permanents on attacks, accelerating the mana needed to cast and recur snow spells, and Blessing of Frost slots in as the payoff that converts a board of snow creatures into a fresh grip of cards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Blessing of Frost is a Commander card through and through — the effect needs a wide board and a critical mass of snow creatures to generate real value, conditions that only reliably exist in a 100-card singleton format with 40 life. In competitive Constructed formats like Modern and Legacy it's simply too slow and too reliant on setup; you'd never assemble enough snow creatures at the right moment to justify five mana. Pioneer and Oathbreaker are theoretically legal but offer no compelling home. This is a card you're picking up specifically to slot into a snow-tribal or counter-stacking Commander shell, full stop.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Blessing of Frost isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its narrow home in snow Commander decks, it tends to be a low-demand bulk rare — worth picking up cheaply if you're building Isu the Abominable, but not a card that commands a premium outside that niche.

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