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Rimefeather Owl

Snow Creature — Bird

Flying
Rimefeather Owl's power and toughness are each equal to the number of snow permanents on the battlefield.
{1}{S}: Put an ice counter on target permanent.
Permanents with ice counters on them are snow.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{5}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Coldsnap
Price
$1.88
EDHREC rank
#12177
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Rimefeather Owl card art
Rimefeather Owl enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter for each snow permanent in play, then turns every snow permanent you tap into a free counter — in a dedicated snow deck, it arrives as a massive flier and keeps growing. The cost is steep at five mana plus triple blue, which means it lives squarely in Isu the Abominable and Jorn, God of Winter shells where snow permanents are already the deck's backbone, not an afterthought.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Isu the Abominable

Isu the Abominable

77.9% of decks · synergy 0.77

Isu the Abominable rewards you for accumulating snow permanents, and Rimefeather Owl converts that accumulation directly into a closing threat — every snow land and creature Isu helps you assemble becomes a +1/+1 counter on a flying beater that often enters at 10/10 or larger.

02

Jorn, God of Winter

66.3% of decks · synergy 0.65

Jorn, God of Winter untaps snow permanents on attack, which means every snow land untapped by Jorn can immediately be retapped to put a counter on Rimefeather Owl — the synergy is recursive rather than incremental, letting the Owl grow several counters per combat step.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Rimefeather Owl is a Commander card through and through — the seven-mana ceiling and narrow snow synergy requirement make it a non-starter in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where it's technically legal but never played. In Commander, it slots cleanly into any snow-heavy blue or Sultai list, functioning as both a payoff and a late-game mana sink when you have snow permanents to tap. Outside of Commander, Oathbreaker is the one other format where it could theoretically appear, though the 20-life total and faster pace make a seven-mana 3/5 a harder sell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.88 cheap tier

At $1.88, Rimefeather Owl sits in budget territory for a mythic-rare finisher with a niche application — the low price reflects its narrow format appeal rather than its power level inside the right snow deck. It's a stable pickup for dedicated snow builds, unlikely to spike but equally unlikely to fall much further.

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