Winter's Chill
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SetICE
Collector #107
Released1995-06-03
Rarityrare
ArtistEdward P. Beard, Jr.
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Winter's Chill

RareReserved listColour IDMV 1
Instant
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 or . If that player doesn't, destroy that creature at end of combat. If that player pays only , prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this combat.
Card capabilities
Instant
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (2)
wotc20 Sept 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.
wotc4 Oct 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.