Icequake

Black land destruction priced to remind you that Sinkhole already existed, with a snow rider stapled on to justify its presence in a set built around snow. The base case is plain: three mana, one land gone, no ramp or upside attached, a recolored Stone Rain. The whole design idea lives in the conditional clause. Ice Age sold its snow-covered lands as a tempo concession, terrain you ran because the set rewarded it elsewhere, and Icequake punished that concession with a single point of damage when the land it destroyed happened to be snow. The damage is trivial in raw numbers and entirely the point thematically: it is the rider that taxes the players who leaned hardest into the manabase the set was pushing them toward. What makes it worth remembering is how directly flavor and function close on each other. A snow-matters expansion printed a removal spell built specifically to hate on snow, a loop most players only registered when they were the one taking the burn. The conditional damage rarely decided anything, but it sealed the thematic circuit cleanly, and that closure is why the card reads as more than a Stone Rain wearing a black coat.