Magic Commander Snow Commanders Ranked: Jorn and Kaldring Top Draftsim's List

• #1 Jorn, God of Winter / Kaldring, the Rimestaff: a Sultai commander. Jorn untaps itself whenever it attacks, while Kaldring allows casting a snow card out of your graveyard, playing a snow land included, as long as normal timing restrictions are respected.
• #2 Isu the Abominable: a Bant commander from Jumpstart 2022 that comes with a 5/5 body. Snow cards can be played off the top of your library, and each snow creature can put +1/+1 counters on it.
• #3 Hylda of the Icy Crown: an Azorius commander from Wilds of Eldraine that pays you off for tapping opposing creatures. Draftsim names it the best stun counter commander in Magic.

Snow Commanders #4–#9

The rest of the ranking:

• #4 Narfi, Betrayer King: a Dimir lord that boosts snow and zombie creatures and can return from the graveyard. According to Draftsim, it plays more like a budget zombie commander than a snow one.
• #5 Esika, God of the Tree / The Prismatic Bridge: a 5-color commander. Esika hands its abilities, vigilance and the ability to tap for any color of mana to legendary creatures, and The Prismatic Bridge fetches creatures and planeswalkers at no cost during upkeep.
• #6 Svella, Ice Shaper: a Gruul commander that produces Icy Manalith snow mana rocks. Draftsim points out that the deck lacks one of the Marit Lage cards yet can run Etali, Primal Conqueror, and that plenty of players build it around land destruction.
• #7 Moritte of the Frost: a Simic shapeshifter that arrives as a copy of any permanent you control, whether or not it is snow. When there is nothing to copy, it requires snow mana to be cast while Boreal Outrider is on the battlefield.
• #8 Kenrith, the Returned King: a 5-color commander with various activated abilities whose color identity allows any snow card.
• #9 Heidar, Rimewind Master: a 5-mana 3/3 mono-blue commander that bounces problematic permanents back to opponents' hands.

Honorable Mentions and Snow Rules Notes

Honorable mentions go to Jill, Shiva's Dominant; Shiva, Warden of Ice; and Snow Villiers, all judged to have limited potential as deck leaders.

Reidane, God of the Worthy / Valkmira, Protector's Shield refers to snow but carries an ability that punishes it, so it does not count as a snow commander.

Draftsim says more than 100 cards carry the snow supertype.

Snow Enablers and Payoffs for Commander

The snow enablers named are Into the North, Search for Glory and Scrying Sheets.

Listed snow payoffs:

• Abominable Treefolk: power and toughness scale with snow permanents.
• Avalanche Caller: animates snow lands into 4/4 elementals.
• Boreal Outrider: if snow mana paid for a creature spell, that creature enters with a +1/+1 counter.
• Icebreaker Kraken: gets cheaper later in the game, with built-in recursion.
• Dead of Winter: can act as a one-sided board wipe, since snow creatures survive it.

Dark Depths supplies the Marit Lage win condition. Since Dark Depths and Marit Lage's Slumber each create a legendary token called Marit Lage, the two tokens cannot sit on the field at once without outside help.

Where This Fits in TCGKing's Commander Coverage

The ranking joins other Draftsim lists TCGKing has covered, including the sea creature commanders ranking. Commander players also have the Mystery Booster Commander release on November 13 ahead.

What is still unknown

• No new card or product release is announced.
• The ranking has no official publisher source.

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What it means for players

• Snow commanders span many color identities, from mono-blue Heidar to 5-color Kenrith.
• Players weighing Svella or Moritte should note the extra requirements Draftsim flags.
• Anyone running Marit Lage tokens should remember the two sources conflict on the field.