Into the North
Sorcery
Search your library for a snow land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $5.13
- EDHREC rank
- #4600
Into the North fetches any snow land — including utility lands like Scrying Sheets — at instant-comparable two-mana sorcery speed, making it a clean ramp spell that doubles as a snow-permanent enabler. In any deck built around Isu the Abominable or a snow theme, this replaces a generic ramp slot and actively fuels your engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Isu the Abominable
Isu the Abominable cares about snow permanents entering and accumulating, and Into the North is the most consistent way to hit the land-based snow triggers early while developing mana — it appears in over 82% of Isu lists for exactly that reason.
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter wants snow lands on the battlefield to untap on attacks, and Into the North guarantees a snow land hits play on turn two so Jorn's untap trigger is live the moment he lands.
Svella, Ice Shaper
Svella, Ice Shaper doesn't specifically reward snow lands, so Into the North earns its slot here purely as two-mana ramp into the big mana Svella wants — the snow typing is incidental, which explains the lower inclusion rate.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Into the North is narrow by design: it only fetches snow lands, which means it's dead weight outside dedicated snow builds but close to auto-include inside them. In Commander, where snow themes have real critical mass thanks to Jorn and Isu, it's a two-mana ramp spell that also hits utility snow lands like Scrying Sheets or Dark Depths — a meaningful upside over Rampant Growth. In Pauper it sees fringe play in Skred-adjacent builds where snow basics matter for spell scaling. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes but irrelevant in practice; the formats have no interest in a two-mana sorcery-speed land fetcher regardless of subtype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If you want two-mana snow ramp at a lower price point, Cold Snap's reprint of Into the North is the card itself — there's no functional substitute that fetches snow lands specifically. For generic two-mana land ramp that can slot in outside snow decks, Rampant Growth and Farseek both cost under $0.50 and fetch basics or dual lands respectively, but they don't trigger snow synergies or find Scrying Sheets, so the swap only makes sense if you're cutting the snow theme entirely.
Price Context
Current price
$5.13 mid tier
At $5.13, Into the North sits in the mid tier — pricier than generic ramp staples but justified by its unique card pool (it's the only two-mana sorcery that fetches snow lands). The price is stable rather than speculative; demand is narrow but steady from a consistent base of Isu and Jorn players who treat it as a near-mandatory include.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Isu the Abominable
- Jorn, God of Winter
- Svella, Ice Shaper
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.