Snow-Covered Plains Price
13 printings · 9 sets · first printed 1995
Snow-Covered Plains has been printed 13 times across 9 sets, first in 1995 and most recently in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Kaldheim #277 at $0.38, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #1473★ at $24.80 — about 65× more. The median across 10 priced printings is $2.31. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 13x, including dedicated reprint sets like Mystery Booster 2, Modern Horizons.
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Every Snow-Covered Plains Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaldheim #277 (C) Cheapest | 2021 | $0.38 | $0.08 |
| Kaldheim #276 (C) | 2021 | $0.39 | $0.08 |
| Modern Horizons #250 (C) | 2019 | $0.89 | $0.20 |
| Coldsnap #151 (C) | 2006 | $1.69 | $0.45 |
| Mystery Booster 2 #116 (C) | 2024 | $1.99 | — |
| Ice Age #367 (C) | 1995 | $2.63 | $0.85 |
| Secret Lair Drop #1 (R) Foil | 2019 | $8.37 | $6.00 foil |
| Secret Lair Drop #325 (R) | 2021 | $9.08 | $7.50 foil |
| Secret Lair Drop #1473 (R) | 2023 | $19.69 | $11.00 |
| Secret Lair Drop #1473★ (R) Foil | 2023 | $24.80 | — |
| MTG Arena Promos #257 (C) | 2021 | — | — |
| Arena New Player Experience #95846 (C) | 2018 | — | — |
| Masters Edition II #241 (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 13 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.