Flying, vigilance
: When target creature other than this creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
She doesn't escort the dead to the afterlife, but instead raises them to fight and die again.
Flying
: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
"More than snow falls from the Boreal skies."
—Arkin Egilsson, skycaptain
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. can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
If a creature would deal combat damage to you and/or one or more creatures you control, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of age counters on this enchantment.
: Put an age counter on this enchantment.
Whenever you're dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
"With his dream of unification fulfilled, Darien became the last king of Kjeldor. Those who followed were known as the kings of New Argive."
—Kjeldor: Ice Civilization
Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
The Knights of Stromgald struck Darien's Roost from two sides. They would have caught Kjeldor in a pincer attack were it not for Darien's tacticians.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
: Enchanted creature gains defender until end of turn. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Enchant creature
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. can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 for each age counter on this Aura.
Cumulative upkeep—Put two cards from a single graveyard on the bottom of their owner's library. (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.)
Cumulative upkeep or (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.)
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each age counter on it.
Flying, first strike
Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
The gargoyles were taken from the walls of flooded Kjeldoran cities and brought upland to guard the outposts of New Argive.
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.)
: This creature deals damage equal to the number of age counters on it to target attacking or blocking creature.
: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
"I listen to people. He sniffs the wind. And we both sense something big coming. Something very big."
Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Kjeldoran War Cry in all graveyards.
King Darien's breath crystallized and fell to the frozen battlefield, but its command carried true to all soldiers of New Argive.
Prevent all damage that black sources and red sources would deal this turn.
"The White Shield is not the burnished metal you lash to your forearm but the conviction that burns in your chest."
—Lucilde Fiksdotter, leader of the Order of the White Shield
, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice this creature: You gain three times X life.
"Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself."
Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.
The aberrant magic of the Rimewind drew the unicorns back from the northern wastes to do battle once again.
Flying
, : Tap target creature.
"The scouts claim the cold has malice, and a mind. I begin to believe them. Impassable drifts seem to appear before us at every turn."
—Aevar Borg, northern guide, journal entry
You gain 4 life.
Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)
"Heidar has forced the sun into hiding, but it has not forgotten us."
You may exile two white cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures.
First strike
Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as this spell from among those cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Darien's call to Yavimaya would have fallen red to the snow had it not been for the agility of the aesthir.
This creature enters with four healing counters on it.
Remove a healing counter from this creature: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn.
: Put a healing counter on this creature.
Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (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.)
Protection from black
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
"Honor your steed and it will carry you to great deeds—and bring you home to tell of them."
This creature enters with three ice counters on it.
As long as this creature has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender.
Whenever this creature blocks, remove an ice counter from it.
Flying
: Target creature loses flying until end of turn. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Terisiare has only two kinds of weather: cold and weird.
: Target artifact creature's controller sacrifices it. That player may search their library for a noncreature artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
"Artifice sundered the world. It shall not again wreak such sorrow."
, : Target snow land becomes a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.
"Whether frozen or fertile, the land is our ally. It awaits the call to battle."
You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)
Counter target spell.
Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards.
Adarkar's blank wastes make the mind wander—and stray thoughts are quickly caught and devoured.
Counter target red or green spell.
"Nature? Fire? Bah! Both are chaotic and difficult to control. Ice is structured, latticed, light as a feather, massive as a glacier. In ice, there is power!"
—Heidar, Rimewind master
Flying
: This creature gains shroud until end of turn. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source. A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
The Rimewind wizards strove to perpetuate a magical winter. Their unnatural snows birthed unnatural beasts.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
"Guard, fetch me a mallet."
—Heidar, Rimewind master
, : Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Activate only if you control four or more snow permanents.
"The umber stain of the Thaw will be bleached away. Once again the world will be sharp, white, perfect!"
Trample
This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice five lands.
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever you play an Island, you may untap this creature.
Flying
Krovikan Mist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Illusions on the battlefield.
Plague-induced dreams became real as they swirled above Krov, mingling with the magical residue of the World Spell.
Enchant creature
Cumulative upkeep or (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.)
You control enchanted creature.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.
, Reveal X blue cards from your hand, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .
"Do not call the Balduvians barbaric. Their magic is as potent as it is primal."
—Zur the Enchanter
Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.
When the School of the Unseen fell, so many magical treasures lay abandoned that no amount of death could deter the stream of thieves and desperate scholars.
Flying
Rimefeather Owl's power and toughness are each equal to the number of snow permanents on the battlefield.
: Put an ice counter on target permanent.
Permanents with ice counters on them are snow.
, : Counter target activated ability. Activate only if you control four or more snow permanents. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
"The Thaw brings flooding, disease, and death. We will do all in our power to bring frigid peace back to the world."
, : You may tap or untap target permanent. Activate only if you control four or more snow permanents.
"Find solace in the sun? Burning, blinding, laying secrets bare? No, solace is found under the blanket of cold."
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a snow land.
When you control no snow lands, sacrifice this creature.
With the spread of Rimewind's sorcerous winter, snow dwellers reclaimed their places atop the food chain.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays plus an additional for each card named Rune Snag in each graveyard.
"Concentration is key. Without it, a mage conjures nothing but a splitting headache."
—Zur the Enchanter
Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as this spell from among those cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
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.)
: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.
Choose one —
• Target nonsnow permanent becomes snow until end of turn.
• Target snow permanent isn't snow until end of turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (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.)
When this creature dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.
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 this creature's cumulative upkeep is paid, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each or spent this way.
Destroy target nonsnow creature.
"Thick hides and layered armor won't help when I freeze you from the inside out."
—Heidar, Rimewind master
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. ( can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Rimewind necromancers caught travelers in mystical blizzards then trapped their spirits in the mist of their final frozen breaths.
Destroy target green or white creature.
"I hope it's true that every snowflake is unique, because I never want to see one like this again. Now clean up that body."
—Thangbrand Gyrdsson, Kjeldoran patrol
: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
, , Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn.
"You pray to Freyalise, but she cannot hear your pleas. It is Tevesh Szat who will claim your soul."
Feast of Flesh deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Feast of Flesh in all graveyards.
"Starving an army that feeds on its enemies is a sound strategy."
—Garza Zol, plague queen
Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)
Whenever a creature dies, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
"There it was, clawing the ice as it chittered and clicked its teeth. We fled in horror before it unearthed its grisly meal."
—Aevar Borg, northern guide, journal entry
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 2 life.
"Make sure those wretches feed only upon the plagued. The blood of the healthy is reserved for me alone."
—Garza Zol, plague queen