Blood on the Snow
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 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.




