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Svella, Ice Shaper

First printed in Kaldheim (2021)

All 4 prints

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  • The List (PLST) #KHM-230, 2024
  • Magic Online Promos (PRM) #88380, 2021 (digital)
  • Kaldheim (KHM) #230, 2021
  • Kaldheim (KHM) #331, 2021

Svella, Ice Shaper

Legendary Snow Creature — Troll Warrior

3 generic, tap: Create a colorless snow artifact token named Icy Manalith with "tap: Add one mana of any color."
6 genericRedGreen, tap: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

2/4

Illustrated by
Andrew Mar

Legality

Legal in
Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in
Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl

Rulings (11)
  • The Kaldheim set doesn’t have any cards with mana costs that include snow, but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs 1 generic less to cast, that reduction doesn’t apply to any snow costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include snow in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs.
  • The spell you cast with Svella’s last ability is cast from your library.
  • If the spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
  • If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
  • Some cards have additional effects for each snow 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.
  • If you cast a spell using Svella’s ability, you do so as part of the resolution of that ability. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card’s type are ignored.
  • 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 snow using mana that wasn’t produced by a snow source.
  • The snow 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.
  • In some unusual cases, the order of your library will matter as you cast the spell from among the revealed cards. Remember that looking at the top cards of your library doesn’t change their order or allow you to change their order. You don’t put the cards on the bottom of your library until after you are done casting the spell.
  • 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.
  • You’ll put the cards you didn’t cast on the bottom of your library before the spell you cast resolves.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Kaldheim (KHM), Premier Draft 57.1% +2.6 +4.0 25681
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Combos

3 combos, the most popular first: