Card
Winter, Cursed Rider
Mana cost {U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock 3/2
Ward—Pay 2 life. Artifacts you control have "Ward—Pay 2 life." Exhaust — {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Exile X artifact cards from your graveyard: Each other nonartifact creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DFT · #228
- Cheapest printing
- €0.08
- EDHREC salt
- 0.19
- Color identity
- Black, Blue
- Keywords
- Exhaust, Ward
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Multiple instances of ward each trigger separately. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect causes Winter to become an artifact, its second ability will cause it to gain a second instance of ward.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast