Yes, all snow-covered lands have the basic land type as you will see "Basic Snow Land" on each card. Such as Snow-Covered Plains .
September 15, 2012 4:45 a.m.
Which in turn means that cards like Rampant Growth can be used to search your library for a basic snow land. It also means that cards like Goblin Ruinblaster 's kicker ability can't be used to target a basic snow land.
However, snow land cards like Dark Depths are non-basic and can be targeted with Goblin Ruinblaster 's kicker ability.
September 15, 2012 4:48 a.m.
Phobophile says... Accepted answer #5
it's not quite a simple yes or no answer though in the sense that i think you are asking.
some cards, such as Invader Parasite and Extraplanar Lens care about the NAME of the card. a Snow-Covered Plains has a different name to Plains , and will work differently with cards that reference the name of a land card or, obviously, with effects that mention "snow-covered permanents".
however if you are just asking if you can have any number of snow-covered lands in your deck, then the answer is Yes.
September 15, 2012 4:54 a.m.
Sorry, my first answer should have said that all snow-covered lands with basic land supertype count as basic lands. Not all snow-covered lands are basic lands.
September 15, 2012 4:56 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #9
@Phobophile: Arctic Flats , Boreal Shelf , Dark Depths , Frost Marsh , Highland Weald , Mouth of Ronom , Scrying Sheets , Tresserhorn Sinks .
September 15, 2012 4:19 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #10
Also note that snow-covered basic lands are only legal in a format if they were printed in a set legal in that format. For example, you can't have a Snow-Covered Plains in your Standard deck.
September 15, 2012 4:20 p.m.
Phobophile says... #11
pretty sure none of those are "snow-covered" lands. i never said there were no lands with supertype 'snow'
September 20, 2012 4 a.m.
So..For a card like Wayfaring Giant , if you controlled both plains and snow-covered plains, would it get two +1/+1 counters on it? ( ie the Snow-covered Plain counts as a seperate basic land type then the Plain) ?
January 8, 2013 2:17 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #13
No. Supertypes, types, and subtypes are all separate, and they are only one word apiece. Snow is a supertype. Plains is a basic land type. Wayfaring Giant counts only the different basic land types among lands you control; it doesn't count supertypes or card names.
Also, an effect doesn't use counters unless the word counter is explicitly written in the text. Wayfaring Giant only has static buffs.
Jokernaught says... #1
They are indeed basic lands.
September 15, 2012 4:44 a.m.