Snow-Covered Island Price
14 printings · 10 sets · first printed 1995
Snow-Covered Island has been printed 14 times across 10 sets, first in 1995 and most recently in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Kaldheim #279 at $1.06, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #1474★ at $50.42 — about 48× more. The median across 11 priced printings is $3.36. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 14x, including dedicated reprint sets like Mystery Booster 2, Jumpstart 2022.
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Every Snow-Covered Island Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaldheim #279 (C) Cheapest | 2021 | $1.06 | $0.50 |
| Kaldheim #278 (C) | 2021 | $1.21 | $0.50 |
| Modern Horizons #251 (C) | 2019 | $1.46 | $0.40 |
| Jumpstart 2022 #833 (C) | 2022 | $1.70 | $0.50 |
| Coldsnap #152 (C) | 2006 | $2.54 | $1.50 |
| Ice Age #371 (C) | 1995 | $3.36 | $1.00 |
| Mystery Booster 2 #117 (C) | 2024 | $3.70 | $1.40 |
| Secret Lair Drop #2 (R) Foil | 2019 | $7.64 | — |
| Secret Lair Drop #326 (R) | 2021 | $14.06 | $6.00 |
| Secret Lair Drop #1474 (R) | 2023 | $31.16 | $19.00 |
| Secret Lair Drop #1474★ (R) Foil | 2023 | $50.42 | — |
| MTG Arena Promos #258 (C) | 2021 | — | — |
| Arena New Player Experience #95847 (C) | 2018 | — | — |
| Masters Edition II #242 (C) | 2008 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
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.)Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 14 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
6 PrecedentsSnow is a supertype, not a card type. It has no rules meaning or function by itself, but spells and abilities may refer to it.
The 
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.
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 using mana that wasn't produced by a snow source.
Some cards have additional effects for each 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.
In a Limited event (usually Booster Draft or Sealed Deck), you can't add basic snow lands to your card pool as you would other basic lands. You can play with basic snow lands only if you open them in your sealed deck or draft them.
The Kaldheim set doesn't have any cards with mana costs that include , but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs 
less to cast, that reduction doesn't apply to any costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs.