Printings
Icy Blast
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: X
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 42
Oracle Text
Tap X target creatures. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 20, 2014
You check if you control a creature with power 4 or greater as Icy Blast resolves. It doesn’t matter if you control such a creature during any of the relevant untap steps.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
Icy Blast tracks the creature, but not its controller. If the creature changes controllers before its first controller’s next untap step has come around, then it won’t untap during its new controller’s next untap step.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
Ferocious abilities of instants and sorceries that don’t use the word “instead” will provide an additional effect if you control a creature with power 4 or greater as they resolve.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
Some ferocious abilities that appear on instants and sorceries use the word “instead.” These spells have an upgraded effect if you control a creature with power 4 or greater as they resolve. For these, you only get the upgraded effect, not both effects.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
Icy Blast can target a creature that’s already tapped. It still won’t untap during its controller’s next untap step.
Source: wotc
Price History
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