Coldsteel Heart
Snow Artifact
This artifact enters tapped.
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Price
- $2.28
- EDHREC rank
- #2054
Coldsteel Heart enters tapped, which is the entire cost — pay it once, then collect a colored mana every turn for the rest of the game. In snow-matters builds like Isu the Abominable, it pulls double duty as both ramp and a snow permanent, making the enter-tapped clause feel like a discount.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Isu the Abominable
Isu the Abominable cares about controlling snow permanents, and Coldsteel Heart counts toward that threshold while also fixing and accelerating mana — it's doing two jobs in a deck that needs exactly that.
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter untaps snow permanents whenever you attack, which means Coldsteel Heart can effectively produce two mana in a single turn cycle, turning a simple rock into genuine acceleration.
Hylda of the Icy Crown
Hylda of the Icy Crown wants as many snow sources as possible to stay consistent, and Coldsteel Heart fills that role while smoothing out a color-intensive mana base.
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant's affinity-adjacent cost reduction rewards artifacts in play, and Coldsteel Heart is a cheap artifact that sticks around to reduce future casts.
Zo-Zu the Punisher
Zo-Zu the Punisher decks lean on artifact mana to develop the board without playing lands, and Coldsteel Heart provides colored mana without triggering Zo-Zu's own symmetrical damage.
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 |
Commander is where Coldsteel Heart earns its keep — snow-tribal commanders run it as a near-auto-include, and even outside snow synergies it competes reasonably with other two-mana rocks in color-hungry three-plus-color builds. In Legacy and Vintage it sees essentially no play; those formats demand mana acceleration that doesn't enter tapped, and Coldsteel Heart can't clear that bar. Modern has access to it but largely ignores it for the same reason — Arcane Signet and Talisman cycles do the job without the tempo loss. Coldsteel Heart is a Commander card through and through, and specifically a snow Commander card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.28 cheap tier
At $2.28, Coldsteel Heart sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation, and its price is anchored by consistent demand from snow builds rather than speculative spikes. It's a safe pickup that won't crater in value, but you're buying it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.