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Winter's Chill

{X}{U}

Instant

ICEIce Age#107rare
Reserved List
Border
black
Frame
1993
Pull rate
~1 in 40–121
Illustrator
Edward P. Beard, Jr.
Found in
Ice Age Starter Deck · Ice Age Booster Pack
Printings1
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernLegal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared. X can't be greater than the number of snow lands you control. Choose X target attacking creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller may pay {1} or {2}. If that player doesn't, destroy that creature at end of combat. If that player pays only {1}, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this combat.

Plays as: Fog · Protection Spell · X Spell

Market · per finishspark updated 7h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil-0.6%
$1.69
$0.93 low$0.76 gap
Cheapest playable copy$1.69· across 1 printing

Rulings

2 · latest Sep 20, 2013 · one tap opens all
  • WotCSep 20, 2013

    If a turn has multiple combat phases, this spell can be cast during any of them as long as it’s before the beginning of that phase’s Declare Blockers Step.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    The payments are made when the spell resolves. The three options are: pay {2} to let creature act as normal, pay {1} to have creature neither deal or receive damage, or pay nothing and the creature does deal and receive damage but it will be destroyed at end of combat.