Freeze in Place

Stun counters gave designers a way to sell a Frost Breath effect as something more permanent, and this is the version that leans hardest into that math. A single tap normally buys one turn of freedom from a blocker or attacker; three stun counters buy three untap steps, because each attempt to untap the creature peels off a counter instead. That turns a two-mana sorcery into a soft removal spell against anything that plans to attack or hold up an activated ability: the target stays down through your next several turns, and you have effectively bought a window rather than a single beat. The sorcery timing is the honest cost here, since freezing a creature on your own turn means you cannot ambush an attacker mid-combat the way an instant could; you commit ahead and take the tempo on your terms. The scry 2 is what keeps the card from feeling like pure spent tempo, smoothing your next draws so the turns you bought do not get wasted on flooding out. It is a clean piece of tempo tooling that trades the unconditional finality of removal for a repeatable delay that costs the opponent multiple untap steps to unwind.