Cold Snap
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals damage to that player equal to the number of snow lands they control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #30376
Cold Snap destroys all snow lands — a surgical wipe that hits an entire resource base for three mana. It's a narrow hoser with a ceiling of 'win on the spot against snow' and a floor of 'dead card in most pods.'
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 |
Cold Snap is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its relevance is almost entirely format-dependent. In Commander, it's a meta call — if someone at the table is running Narfi, Betrayer King or a dedicated snow-lands package, Cold Snap can destroy their mana base for three mana at sorcery speed, but it's a blank against anyone else. Legacy and Vintage see fringe snow-land play, and Cold Snap is too situational to earn a main deck slot in either. Bring it in if your local Commander meta is saturated with snow decks; otherwise it sits in the bulk bin where it belongs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Cold Snap is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it's the right hoser for your specific meta. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.