Ice Tunnel
Snow Land — Island Swamp
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This land enters tapped.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #3919
Ice Tunnel enters untapped and produces blue or black mana — full dual land functionality at the cost of the Snow supertype gating it out of non-Snow decks. Outside of Snow builds, there's nothing here that a basic Island or Swamp doesn't replicate; inside them, it's a near-staple, and Jorn, God of Winter decks run it at over 90% inclusion for good reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter untaps Snow permanents whenever you attack, and Ice Tunnel qualifies — meaning it effectively produces two mana per combat phase, which is the engine that makes Jorn's big-mana turns possible.
Runo Stromkirk
Runo Stromkirk is a Dimir commander that appreciates fixing, and Ice Tunnel slots in as a clean untapped dual; the Snow typing is mostly incidental here, making it a workable but unremarkable inclusion compared to the near-mandatory role it plays elsewhere.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ice Tunnel is a role-player in exactly one archetype — Snow — where it's close to mandatory, and a non-card everywhere else. Pauper is where it has the most crossover appeal: Dimir Snow strategies at common get real mileage from an untapped dual that counts as Snow for synergy purposes. In Modern and Pioneer, dual land slots are contested by fetchable shocklands and painless-untapped options that don't require a Snow deck to justify them, so Ice Tunnel rarely makes the cut. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly better options and have no reason to run it. The card's value proposition is entirely conditional on the Snow count in your list.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Ice Tunnel is bulk — pick it up without thinking if you're building Snow. It's a functional untapped dual in a narrow context, and that narrowness keeps the price floor low with no meaningful upward pressure expected.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Jorn, God of Winter
- Runo Stromkirk
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.