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Icebreaker Kraken

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4 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Icebreaker Kraken, Kaldheim printing
Kaldheim KHM · No. 345 2021-02-05

Card text

{10}{U}{U}
Snow Creature — Kraken
Affinity for snow lands (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each snow land you control.) When this creature enters, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step. Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
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Keywords: Affinity
EDHREC rank #7721 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 4 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

9 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

The Kaldheim set doesn't have any cards with mana costs that include {S}, but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs {1} less to cast, that reduction doesn't apply to any {S} costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include {S} in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Snow is a supertype, not a card type. It has no rules meaning or function by itself, but spells and abilities may refer to it.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Some cards have additional effects for each {S} spent to cast them. You can cast these spells even if you don't spend any snow mana to cast them; their additional effects simply won't do anything.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Once you announce that you're activating the last ability, no player may take actions until the ability has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to stop you from activating it by removing your snow lands.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

No artifacts or creatures controlled by the player affected by Icebreaker Kraken's enters-the-battlefield ability will untap during that player's next untap step, even if they were untapped as the ability resolved or that player didn't control them at that time.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Icebreaker Kraken). The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

The {S} symbol is a generic mana symbol. It represents a cost that can be paid by one mana that was produced by a snow source. That mana can be any color or colorless.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Snow isn't a type of mana. If an effect says you may spend mana as though it were any type, you can't pay for {S} using mana that wasn't produced by a snow source.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Icebreaker Kraken's enters-the-battlefield ability won't tap any artifacts or creatures.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Icebreaker Kraken, Kaldheim Promos printing
Kaldheim Promos
PKHM · #63p
Rare
∅ No QC price
Icebreaker Kraken, Kaldheim Promos printing
Kaldheim Promos
PKHM · #63s
Rare
∅ No QC price