First printed in Kaldheim (2021)
Snow Instant
Scry X, where X is the amount of 
spent to cast this spell, then draw three cards. ( is mana from a snow source.)
The runes glow beneath the snow, bearing memories of a time when the old gods ruled the realms.
- Illustrated by
- Svetlin Velinov
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- 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 using mana that wasn’t produced by a snow source.
- Some cards have additional effects for each 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.
- The Kaldheim set doesn’t have any cards with mana costs that include , but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs
less to cast, that reduction doesn’t apply to any costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs. - If you cast Graven Lore without spending snow mana, you’ll just draw three cards.
- If Graven Lore is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so you’ll just draw three cards.
- 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.
- The 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 2 Nov 2026).