Frost Bite {R}

Name: Frost Bite (Kaldheim)
Brand: Magic: The Gathering
SKU: b24345ae-c2c9-435e-a578-1835bb1a9a00

Snow Instant

Frost Bite deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If you control three or more snow permanents, it deals 3 damage instead.

“Don’t wander far—it’s a bit nippy out there!”
—Leidurr, expedition leader

Illustrated by Caio Monteiro

Prints	USD	EUR	TIX
Kaldheim #138	$0.05	€0.08	0.03
Kaldheim #404	$0.26	€0.11
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Whether or not you control three or more snow permanents is checked as Frost Bite is resolving. (2021-02-05)
Snow is a supertype, not a card type. It has no rules meaning or function by itself, but spells and abilities may refer to it. (2021-02-05)
The {S} 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. (2021-02-05)

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 {S} using mana that wasn’t produced by a snow source. (2021-02-05)
Some cards have additional effects for each {S} 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. (2021-02-05)
The Kaldheim set doesn’t have any cards with mana costs that include {S}, but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs {1} less to cast, that reduction doesn’t apply to any {S} costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include {S} in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs. (2021-02-05)