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Adarkar Valkyrie

Snow Creature - Angel 4/5, 4WW (6)
Flying, vigilance
{T}: When target creature other than Adarkar Valkyrie is put into a graveyard this turn, return that card to play under your control.

She doesn't escort the dead to the afterlife, but instead raises them to fight and die again.
Illus. Jeremy Jarvis

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Rare)


Boreal Griffin

Snow Creature - Griffin 3/2, 3WW (5)
Flying
{S}: Boreal Griffin gains first strike until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)
1
"More than snow falls from the Boreal skies." -Arkin Egilsson, skycaptain
Illus. Cyril Van Der Haegen

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Cover of Winter

Snow Enchantment, 2W (3)
Cumulative upkeep {S} ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)
If a creature would deal combat damage to you and/or one or more creatures you control, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of age counters on Cover of Winter.
{S}: Put an age counter on Cover of Winter.
1
Illus. Wayne Reynolds

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries

  • It prevents X damage from each creature, each time that creature deals combat damage. If a creature has Double Strike, then each of its two combat damage steps will have X prevented. [Coldsnap FAQ 2006/06/14]
  • If a creature's damage is split among more than one recipient, you decide which damage is prevented. [Coldsnap FAQ 2006/06/14]
  • Note - Also see Cumulative Upkeep, Rule 502.13.
  • Note - Also see Snow, Rule G19.13.

Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Rare)


Darien, King of Kjeldor

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier 3/3, 4WW (6)
Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens into play.
Illus. Michael Phillippi

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Rare)


Field Marshal

Creature - Human Soldier 2/2, 1WW (3)
Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)1
The Knights of Stromgald struck Darien's Roost from two sides. They would have caught Kjeldor in a pincer attack were it not for Darien's tacticians.
Illus. Stephen Tappin

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, Standard

Printings (2/18) Tenth Edition (Rare)
Coldsnap (Rare)


Gelid Shackles

Snow Enchantment - Aura, W (1)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't block and its activated abilities can't be played.
{S}: Enchanted creature gains defender until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)
1
Illus. Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Glacial Plating

Snow Enchantment - Aura, 2WW (4)
Enchant creature
Cumulative upkeep {S} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it. {S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 for each age counter on Glacial Plating.
1
Illus. Brian Despain

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Uncommon)


Jötun Grunt

Creature - Giant Soldier 4/4, 1W (2)
Cumulative upkeep-Put two cards in a single graveyard on the bottom of their owner's library. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)1
Illus. Franz Vohwinkel

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Uncommon)


Jötun Owl Keeper

Creature - Giant 3/3, 2W (3)
Cumulative upkeep {W} or {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Jotun Owl Keeper is put into a graveyard from play, put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying into play for each age counter on it.
1
Illus. Dave Dorman

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Uncommon)


Kjeldoran Gargoyle

Creature - Gargoyle 3/3, 5W (6)
Flying, first strike, lifelink (Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.)1
The gargoyles were taken from the walls of flooded Kjeldoran cities and brought upland to guard the outposts of New Argive.
Illus. Marcelo Vignali

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Uncommon)


Kjeldoran Javelineer

Creature - Human Soldier 1/2, W (1)
Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
{T}: Kjeldoran Javelineer deals damage to target attacking or blocking creature equal to the number of age counters on Kjeldoran Javelineer.
1
Illus. Dave Dorman

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Kjeldoran Outrider

Creature - Human Soldier 2/2, 1W (2)
{W}: Kjeldoran Outrider gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
"I listen to people. He sniffs the wind. And we both sense something big coming. Something very big."
Illus. Carl Critchlow


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Kjeldoran War Cry

Instant, 1W (2)
Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Kjeldoran War Cry in all graveyards.
King Darien's breath crystallized and fell to the frozen battlefield, but its command carried true to all soldiers of New Argive.
Illus. Michael Phillippi


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Luminesce

Instant, W (1)
Prevent all damage that black sources and red sources would deal this turn.1
"The White Shield is not the burnished metal you lash to your forearm but the conviction that burns in your chest." -Lucilde Fiksdotter, leader of the Order of the White Shield
Illus. Daren Bader


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, Standard

Printings (2/18) Tenth Edition (Uncommon)
Coldsnap (Uncommon)


Martyr of Sands

Creature - Human Cleric 1/1, W (1)
{1}, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Sands: You gain three times X life.
"Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself."
Illus. Randy Gallegos

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries

  • A card that is revealed stays revealed until the ability leaves the stack, or until it leaves your hand. [Coldsnap FAQ 2006/06/14]
  • An already revealed card can be used to pay the cost. [Coldsnap FAQ 2006/06/14]

Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Ronom Unicorn

Creature - Unicorn 2/2, 1W (2)
Sacrifice Ronom Unicorn: Destroy target enchantment.
The aberrant magic of the Rimewind drew the unicorns back from the northern wastes to do battle once again.
Illus. Carl Critchlow


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Squall Drifter

Snow Creature - Elemental 1/1, 1W (2)
Flying
{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.
1
Illus. Joel Thomas

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Sun's Bounty

Instant, 1W (2)
You gain 4 life.
Recover {1}{W} (When a creature is put into your graveyard from play, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, remove this card from the game.)
1
"Heidar has forced the sun into hiding, but it has not forgotten us."
Illus. Michael Sutfin

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


Sunscour

Sorcery, 5WW (7)
You may remove two white cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Sunscour's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures.

Illus. Jim Murray

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries

  • You cannot remove this card since it is in the stack already when you are choosing cards to pay the cost. [Coldsnap FAQ 2006/06/14]

Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Rare)


Surging Sentinels

Creature - Human Soldier 2/1, 2W (3)
First strike
Ripple 4 (When you play this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may play any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
1
Illus. Christopher Moeller

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries


Format Legality Legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended
Banned in Standard

Printings (1/9) Coldsnap (Common)


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