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Icebind Pillar

Snow Artifact2 generic manaBlue mana

The interesting move is putting a repeatable tapper onto a cheap artifact and paying its activation in snow rather than generic mana. Icy Manipulator, the artifact this most resembles, taps any permanent for a colorless activation drawn from anywhere; the tradeoff here is a cheaper front end and a narrower target line (artifacts and creatures only, no lands or enchantments), with the activation cost gated behind a snow source. That gating carries the design load. The effect still costs one snow mana plus the tap every use: you never get a free engine that flips on once the manabase is assembled. What the snow requirement does is fold the card's real cost into deckbuilding rather than into the activation. You pay a modest snow mana per tap, but you only get to pay it at all if the deck committed its lands to producing snow in the first place, so the card earns its slot only in a shell already bought into the mechanic. Within that shell it does the classic tap-down job: neutralize an attacker before combat, stall a mana rock, keep a blocker off the board turn after turn. It belongs to the long line of "tap one thing each turn" utility pieces, redrawn so the entry fee is charged to the manabase up front and the ongoing rent is a single snow mana at a time.

Icebind Pillar (khm)
KHM · #62uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Snow, Tap: Tap target artifact or creature. (Snow can be paid with one 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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