Is there a difference between a Forest and a Snow-Covered Forest?
Asked by SamuelThrasher1996 12 years ago
It's a pretty self explanatory question.
SamuelThrasher1996 says... #2
Is there a difference in the mana or effect of the card?
November 28, 2012 11:14 p.m.
Nope, except the few Ice Age cards which require snow mana.
November 28, 2012 11:27 p.m.
To further my last post I give you this link.
Cards the need mana produced my Snow Lands.
November 28, 2012 11:30 p.m.
Are we allowed to use snow covered lands in standard?
November 28, 2012 11:34 p.m.
No, because they came out in the Ice Age block, which has been well out of standard for a long time.
Also for what reason would you want to use snow lands anyhow?
November 28, 2012 11:37 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #7
No snow-covered lands have been printed in any Standard-legal set, so no.
November 28, 2012 11:37 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #8
@SamuelThrasher1996: What I meant by my question was "what specific card interaction are you asking about?" If we know more details about what you actually want to know, it will be much easier to explain it properly.
November 28, 2012 11:39 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #9
A Snow-Covered Forest is a basic Forest with the Snow supertype. This means the mana it produces is snow mana (mana from a snow permanent) and also green mana. It can be used to satisfy costs of colorless, green, or snow mana. Additionally, because it is a basic land, a Snow-Covered Forest may be found with effects that find basic lands or lands with basic land types, and effects that affect basic lands can/will affect snow-covered basic lands.
Most decks may have any number of snow-covered lands because they are basic. However, since snow-covered basic lands are not in any sets legal in Standard, they may not be used in Standard decks (despite being basic lands).
November 29, 2012 1:50 a.m.
Oh i just like having different lands from different sets and the art of the snow covered lands looks pretty cool too. So just for fun i guess,
November 29, 2012 4:48 a.m.
Three-Left-Feet says... #11
If you want some Eye-Candy, look for Zendikar Lands, the full-art basic lands. Or just something extremely old-timey. The Full-art lands go for about $1 a pop in most places, but man do you feel good having them on the field :)
November 29, 2012 7:20 a.m.
Unhinged lands are EASILY my favorite lands, especially the swamps. Full-art lands are always the best.
November 29, 2012 10:30 a.m.
SamuelThrasher1996 says... #13
I love unhinged lands :D But the reason I asked is because I saw a snow-covered forest for the first time today. A guy had 4 in his deck and I was just trying to figure out what made them different from forests. To my knowledge, he wasn't running any ice age cards.
November 29, 2012 10:57 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #14
You don't necessarily need to run Ice Age cards to use Snow-Covered lands, although said lands must still be legal in the format you're playing.
People frequently use snow lands in EDH with Extraplanar Lens to have less of a chance of ramping their opponents.
November 29, 2012 11:48 a.m.
SamuelThrasher1996 says... #15
Wait, so if I used an Extraplanar Lens on a Snow-Covered Forest , it doesn't make a Forest tap for 2 mana?
November 29, 2012 1:23 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #16
No. Forest has a different name than Snow-Covered Forest . Extraplanar Lens checks names, not types.
November 29, 2012 1:30 p.m.
SamuelThrasher1996 says... #17
Well, that is super awesome to know :D thank you for the information
Rhadamanthus says... #1
Yes. The different English names mean they're two different cards. Also, Snow-Covered Forest has the Snow supertype. What question are you really asking?
November 28, 2012 11:11 p.m.