Adverse Conditions

A Frost Breath that pays you back. The double-tap-with-no-untap line has a long history behind it, mostly priced as pure tempo: you freeze two attackers or two blockers for a turn and that is the whole transaction. The wrinkle here is the Eldrazi Scion stapled to the back end, which converts a one-shot stall into a play that leaves a residual asset on the board. That little colorless body does triple duty: it chump-blocks, it pushes a point of damage, and it sacrifices for one colorless mana, which is exactly the currency the shell it was built for cares about. The devoid frame is the structural tell: this is an instant that wants to be counted as a colorless permanent's worth of value in a deck tracking colorless sources and Scion fodder, not a blue trick that happens to leave a body. The cost is the rate. Four mana to tap two creatures and make a 1/1 is slow for tempo alone, so the card only earns its slot when the Scion is doing real work later: as a step toward a colorless payoff, as sacrifice material, or as a token the rest of the deck wants to feed. Read as a tax on the freeze it underwhelms; read as colorless ramp that buys a combat turn on the way down, the math comes back into focus.