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Boreal Outrider

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Green. Snow Creature — Elf Warrior

two generic manaone green mana

163 · KHM · U · ENWhat the codes mean

Boreal Outrider

Kaldheim #163 · Illustrated by Alex Konstad

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Oracle text

Whenever you cast a creature spell, if one snow mana of any of that spell's colors was spent to cast it, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. (one snow mana is mana from a snow source.)

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Card details

First printed
2021
Printings
1
Mana value
3
EDHREC rank
#13,101 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Artist
Alex Konstad

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Kaldheim card (#163).

163 · KHM · U · EN

  • 163Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
  • KHMSet code for Kaldheim
  • UUncommon
  • ENPrinted in English

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Rulings (8)

  1. 2021-02-05

    The one snow mana 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.

  2. 2021-02-05

    Unlike effects that care only whether or not you spent snow mana to cast a spell, Boreal Outrider cares about the color of that snow mana. It doesn’t matter which part of the total cost to cast the creature spell the snow mana was spent on, only that the spent snow mana matches one of the creature spell’s colors. For example, if a red creature spell has an additional cost to cast it and you spend red mana from a snow source to pay that cost, Boreal Outrider’s ability will trigger.

  3. 2021-02-05

    A creature affected by Boreal Outrider’s triggered ability will enter with only one additional +1/+1 counter on it, even if you spent more than one snow mana of the appropriate color(s) to cast it.

  4. 2021-02-05

    The Kaldheim set doesn’t have any cards with mana costs that include one snow mana, but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs one generic mana less to cast, that reduction doesn’t apply to any one snow mana costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include one snow mana in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs.

  5. 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 one snow mana using mana that wasn’t produced by a snow source.

  6. 2021-02-05

    If you control multiple Boreal Outriders, each of their triggered abilities will trigger separately. A creature could enter the battlefield with multiple +1/+1 counters on it this way, even if you spent only a single snow mana of the appropriate color(s) to cast the creature spell.

  7. 2021-02-05

    Some cards have additional effects for each one snow mana 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.

  8. 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.

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