Chilling Shade

The classic Shade body, rebuilt around snow mana instead of swamps. The Shade template goes back to the earliest sets: a fragile creature that converts mana into a one-turn beating, scaling with how much you can pour into it. Here the pump cost is a snow-mana symbol rather than a generic black activation, which reframes the whole design. The 1/1 only grows if your lands and other sources are snow permanents, so it doubles as a payoff for committing to a snow manabase rather than a free upgrade on the old framework. That constraint is what turns it into a build-around: a deck running snow-covered lands converts every untapped snow source into a +1/+1, and an evasive body that can become a real clock earns its slot once you are already paying the snow tax. Strip the snow away and what remains is a worse Shade, a flyer that needs a specific resource it cannot generate on its own. The lineage carries more weight than the stat line: this is a tidy case of taking a long-established creature template and gating its ceiling behind a set-defining resource, so the same body reads as filler in one shell and a closer in another, decided entirely by how the mana is built.