Rimescale Dragon
Snow Creature — Dragon
Flying
: Tap target creature and put an ice counter on it. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Creatures with ice counters on them don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $3.02
- EDHREC rank
- #21674
Rimescale Dragon locks the board one creature at a time — tap a snow mana, put an ice counter on any creature, and it never untaps again. Seven mana is a real ask, but the tap-down engine is permanent, cumulative, and uncounterable once it's already running.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Rimescale Dragon actually gets to live. Singleton snow-land builds — especially in Jorn, God of Winter or any Sultai or Temur snow shell — can generate the colored snow mana reliably enough to activate it repeatedly, and the multiplayer board means locking out the most dangerous creature each turn has serious leverage. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; seven mana and a tap ability have no place in those formats. Modern has enough cheaper interaction that Rimescale Dragon never sees play there either. It's a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.02 cheap tier
At $3.02, Rimescale Dragon sits in the cheap tier — reasonable for a build-around mythic with a narrow but loyal audience. Demand is low enough that the price is stable rather than climbing, so there's no urgency either way.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.