Shimmerdrift Vale

Oracle text

Reflections from the wind-sculpted snow gleam with every color of the rainbow.

Tags

Legality

• Commander
• Standard
• Modern
• Legacy
• 1v1 Commander
• Alchemy
• Standard Brawl
• Pioneer
• Pauper
• Historic
• Vintage
• Timeless
• Brawl
• Competitive Brawl
• Future
• Gladiator
• Oathbreaker
• Old School
• Pauper Commander
• Penny Dreadful
• PreDH
• Premodern
• Tiny Leaders: Reborn

Rulings

• 2021-02-05

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.