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Frostwalk Bastion

Snow Land

Manlands buy their power with the friction of costing you a colorless-producing land tapped in every attack step, and this one tightens that bargain twice: it costs no mana to play but demands snow to animate, so the deck that wants a 2/3 out of its land has to commit to a snow-based mana base to get there. The payoff sits in the combat trigger. Damage to a creature does not just deal damage; it taps the blocker and locks it down through its controller's next untap step, which turns a modest body into a repeatable tempo lever. Attack, connect, and the defending creature is neutralized on both ends of the exchange: it cannot block again next turn and it cannot swing back. That effect reads like a colorless echo of a keyword usually reserved for blue and white control shells, folded into a land that dodges sorcery-speed removal by simply being a land until you choose otherwise. The snow requirement is the whole hinge. Without a snow theme it is a colorless-tapping land that does nothing else; with one, it is a land that closes games and grinds down defenders while surviving every sweeper aimed at the board. That is the kind of design that rewards a manabase built for it rather than one that merely tolerates it.

Frostwalk Bastion (mh1)
MH1 · #240uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $1.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 1 generic manaSnow: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 Construct artifact creature. It's still a land. (Snow can be paid with one mana from a snow source.) Whenever this land deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Legalities

Format Status

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