Snowfall
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an Island is tapped for mana, its controller may add an additional . If that Island is snow, its controller may add an additional instead. Spend this mana only to pay cumulative upkeep costs.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #25422
Snowfall enchants a land to tap for an extra blue mana — but only if snow mana was used to cast it, which locks it firmly into dedicated snow-land builds. Outside that context, it's a conditional ritual staple that rarely fires; inside it, it's repeatable mana acceleration that compounds every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Snowfall is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's a niche piece in all of them. In Commander, it belongs exclusively in snow-themed blue builds — Rimefeather Owl or similar — where enough snow permanents exist to reliably trigger the bonus mana. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but have zero interest; those formats have far more efficient ways to accelerate. Pauper is the most realistic non-Commander home, where budget snow-blue shells can extract real value from repeatable mana on a single land.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Snowfall is deep bulk — you're paying for a card slot, not a card. That price is stable purely because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a pushed snow commander drives a sudden run on the category.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.