Icebind Pillar
Snow Artifact
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: Tap target artifact or creature. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #10813
Icebind Pillar taps any nonland permanent for a single snow mana, making it a repeatable answer to threats that most tap effects ignore — planeswalkers, equipment, mana rocks, creatures. Outside of dedicated snow builds led by something like Isu the Abominable, the activation cost is just high enough to keep it off the general staple list.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Isu the Abominable
Isu the Abominable demands snow permanents to fuel its counters-matter engine, and Icebind Pillar is both a snow source and a tap outlet that can lock down an opponent's best permanent every turn for free once Isu is generating surplus snow mana.
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter untaps all snow permanents on attack, which effectively makes Icebind Pillar's activation free — tap something down on your turn, Jorn refunds the mana, and you end up ahead on tempo every combat step.
Hylda of the Icy Crown
Hylda of the Icy Crown triggers whenever you tap a creature an opponent controls, and Icebind Pillar is one of the cleanest ways to do that at instant speed outside your own combat, generating a stream of tokens or +1/+1 counters with minimal setup.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Icebind Pillar is a role-player, not a staple — it earns its slot specifically in snow-matters decks where the activation cost approaches zero. Outside that tribe, paying a snow mana to tap one permanent is too slow against a table of three opponents. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, Icebind Pillar sees essentially no play; dedicated snow strategies exist in Modern but rarely want a three-mana artifact that doesn't immediately affect the board. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in the sense that snow-themed spellslingers can extract real value from it, but again the context-dependence is the story.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Icebind Pillar is bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new snow commander spikes the archetype's profile.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Isu the Abominable
- Jorn, God of Winter
- Hylda of the Icy Crown
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.