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Blood on the Snow

Snow Sorcery4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

A board wipe that pays you back, with the size of the refund set by how much snow mana you can feed it. The two modal wraths are conventional enough: sweep the creatures or sweep the planeswalkers, dealer's choice depending on what the board holds. The reanimation clause is where the snow supertype earns its keep. X equals the Snow spent, so a caster running mostly Snow-Covered basics claws back a mana value six permanent (up to and including the spell's own cost), while a deck light on snow gets a smaller rebate or none at all. That gearing explains why the card carries the Snow supertype rather than being a plain six-mana Damnation-plus-value: the ceiling exists, but reaching it demands a mana base tilted heavily toward snow sources, and every off-color or basic-shy inclusion quietly lowers the recursion target. It belongs to the tradition of black sweepers that refuse to be pure resets: clear the table, then hand one thing back, so the caster walks out of the exchange ahead on tempo and material. What sets this one apart is that the reward isn't fixed at printing; it scales with a deckbuilding commitment made long before the spell is cast, which makes the same six mana buy wildly different amounts of value depending on the shell around it.

Blood on the Snow (pkhm)
PKHM · #79srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of Snow spent to cast this spell. (Snow is mana from a snow source.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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