Winter's Intervention
Instant
Winter's Intervention deals 2 damage to target creature. You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #16384
Winter's Intervention lets you distribute X counters across any number of targets — creatures, planeswalkers, or anything else that accepts them — for a single blue or white mana plus X, at instant speed. The flexibility is the card; a modal counter-distributor this cheap and open-ended earns a slot in any proliferate or counter-synergy Commander build.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Winter's Intervention does its best work — the longer game gives you time to build up mana for a meaningful X, and the format's creature-heavy tables mean you'll almost always have productive targets. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Winter's Intervention competes against more efficient dedicated payoffs and rarely makes the cut outside niche +1/+1 counter decks. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it's worth a second look, since common-legal counter distribution at instant speed is a real asset in go-wide shells. Legacy and Vintage have access to too much broken infrastructure for Winter's Intervention to register.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Winter's Intervention is deep bulk — you're essentially getting it for free in any order. Bulk commons with narrow mechanical niches don't appreciate, so buy it because you need it, not as a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.