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Hylda of the Icy Crown

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, you may pay {1}. When you do, choose one —
• Create a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
Price
$4.45
EDHREC rank
#6466
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Hylda of the Icy Crown card art
Hylda of the Icy Crown turns every tap effect into a choose-your-own-reward — tokens, counters, scry, or mana — and she does it for four mana with immediate presence on the board. The cost is real: she needs a steady supply of tapped creatures to fire consistently, which means she's a payoff card, not an engine on her own, and she sits closer to Opposition territory (tap-all lock pieces) than stand-alone value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kros, Defense Contractor

Kros, Defense Contractor

59.3% of decks · synergy 0.58

Kros, Defense Contractor hands out goad counters that force opponents' creatures to attack — and any creature that attacks is a creature that tapped, feeding Hylda of the Icy Crown a trigger every combat. The two cards form a closed loop: Kros goads, creatures tap to attack, Hylda cashes the triggers for tokens or +1/+1 counters that Kros can then redistribute.

02
Inquisitor Greyfax

Inquisitor Greyfax

24.8% of decks · synergy 0.25

Inquisitor Greyfax taps down multiple creatures per activation, and every one of those taps is a Hylda of the Icy Crown trigger — in a single turn Greyfax can generate a board of tokens or a pile of counters almost incidentally.

03
Isu the Abominable

Isu the Abominable

23.6% of decks · synergy 0.22

Isu the Abominable rewards you for tapping your own Snow creatures, and Hylda of the Icy Crown converts those same taps into additional payoffs — tokens, scry, or mana — so a single snowball-snowball pun aside, the two commanders are pulling in the exact same mechanical direction.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Hylda of the Icy Crown actually lives — the format's longer games give you time to assemble the tap-outlet density she needs, and multiplayer tables generate enough creatures to lock down or exploit. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer she is technically legal but practically ignored: a four-mana 3/4 that does nothing without support is too slow and too parasitic to compete. Legacy and Vintage have access to her but zero reason to run her over faster options. Standard legality means she sees some casual constructed play at release, but nothing sustained. Oathbreaker is the one fringe format where she could serve as a signature-spell-adjacent payoff, but her home is unambiguously the 99 — or the command zone — of a Commander deck built to tap things.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.45 cheap tier

At $4.45, Hylda of the Icy Crown sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include without a second thought in any deck that wants her. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but the ceiling exists in the handful of dedicated tap-synergy builds where she's a four-of-one commander slot staple.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.