Winter Orb
Fifth Edition (5ED) #408 · Rare · Artifact
Mana cost: {2}
As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
"When once winter has ahold,
Not willingly does she withdraw
Her icy touch, wistfully caressing—
The deepened air sleeps its cold."
—Aline Corralurn, "Late Thaw"
Illustrated by Mark Tedin · Released March 24, 1997
Prices
- Nonfoil: $13.98 USD · €9.58 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.07 USD (0.5%) to $13.98 USD; low $13.65 USD, high $14.08 USD.
Printings
- Secret Lair Drop #2400 (SLD) · Rare · 2026 · $16.20 USD foil
- Secret Lair Drop #1486 (SLD) · Rare · 2024 · $11.55 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1486★ (SLD) · Rare · 2024 · $12.92 USD foil
- 30th Anniversary Edition #271 (30A) · Rare · 2022 · $27.04 USD
- 30th Anniversary Edition #568 (30A) · Rare · 2022
- Eternal Masters #234 (EMA) · Rare · 2016 · $22.24 USD
- Magic Online Promos #46922 (PRM) · Rare · 2014
- Masters Edition #173 (ME1) · Rare · 2007
- World Championship Decks 1997 #sg408 (WC97) · Rare · 1997 · $10.98 USD
- Fifth Edition #408 (this printing) · Rare · 1997 · $13.98 USD
- Pro Tour Collector Set #mj358 (PTC) · Rare · 1996 · $15.99 USD
- Fourth Edition #358 (4ED) · Rare · 1995 · $16.62 USD
- Summer Magic / Edgar #280 (SUM) · Rare · 1994
- Revised Edition #280 (3ED) · Rare · 1994 · $21.77 USD
- Collectors' Edition #276 (CED) · Rare · 1993 · $39.66 USD
- Intl. Collectors' Edition #276 (CEI) · Rare · 1993 · $37.75 USD
- Unlimited Edition #276 (2ED) · Rare · 1993 · $94.98 USD
- Limited Edition Beta #276 (LEB) · Rare · 1993
- Limited Edition Alpha #275 (LEA) · Rare · 1993
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2016-06-08 · wotc — All permanents untap during a player’s untap step at once. If Winter Orb is tapped as your untap step begins, your lands will all untap.
- 2016-06-08 · wotc — You can’t tap Winter Orb just because you want to. Another ability, such as that of Glare of Subdual, must instruct or allow you to do so.
Played in these commander decks
- Meria, Scholar of Antiquity · in 20% of 46 decks