Daily Card Redesign #41: Icequake

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development, and I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

Holy what-the-heck-is-happening-in-this-art? Well, then. Let's try it.

Redesign:

The previous incarnation of this card with destroying lands then checking to see if they were snow-covered made me think about how else I can take advantage of a land's snow-ness. Perhaps the snow just fell of the land and onto a creature (though, it seems more appropriate on a Mountain rather than on a Swamp, for snow to fall off and then land on a living thing and kill it - keep that in mind for the next snow block!)!

I decided to just say, "Screw it." to trying to keep with how this would have been worded back then. So, in case you decide to point that it.

I didn't put "untapped" for the Swamp that enters the battlefield because I figured that leaving four mana untapped for destroying a creature compared to Murder's three converted mana cost was enough of a cost that it's fine if you get one untapped Swamp. Go have fun with that, player.