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| Mechanic | |
| Introduced | Homelands |
| Last used | The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth |
| Statistics |
297 cards  0.7%  5.4%  50.8%  3.4%  4.7%  9.8%  2.4%  0.7%  0.3%  1.3%  1%  13.1%  6.4% |
| Scryfall Search | |
| fulloracle:"do(es)?n't untap.*untap step" | |
Freeze is a slang term used by Magic R&D to describe spells that tap a target permanent and prevent untapping during its controller's next untap step.[1] This mechanic is represented in art as ice or coldness (e.g. Crippling Chill).
Description
- "Freezing" creatures is a primary blue ability that R&D has grown fond of in recent years.[1]
- "Freezing" land was a primary red ability, they have been experimenting as a "land destruction lite" [1], which was abandoned after Aether Revolt due to unpopularity.[2]
If an enchanted creature doesn't untap permanently it is called Lockdown or Dehydration. This is one of blue's primary creature answers in Limited. It's used almost solely on Auras.[1]
Some cards also apply freeze effects to themselves.
A related effect is through the use of Stun counters, which freeze for as many counters as are on the card.
List
White
Blue
- Abominable Sleep
- Adverse Conditions
- Archipelagore
- Back to Basics
- Berg Strider
- Breaching Leviathan
- Chillbringer
- Chilling Grasp
- Chill of the Grave
- Cleric of Chill Depths
- Code of Constraint
- Cone of Cold
- Crippling Chill
- Decision Paralysis
- Done
- Dragon Turtle
- Dreamshackle Geist
- A-Dreamshackle Geist
- Dream Tides
- Embargo
- Ethereal Grasp
- Exhaustion
- Fogwalker
- Frost Breath
- Frost Lynx
- Frostveil Ambush
- Frost Titan
- Frost Trickster
- Glacial Grasp
- Glyph of Delusion
- Grip of the Roil
- Guardian of Tazeem
- Hands of Binding
- Icebreaker Kraken
- Icefall Regent
- Icy Blast
- Illithid Harvester
- Imaginary Threats
- Imoen, Wily Trickster
- Intruder Alarm
- Junk Winder
- Juvenile Mist Dragon
- Kiora Bests the Sea God
- Labyrinth Minotaur
- Lorthos, the Tidemaker
- Mana Vapors
- Merchant Raiders
- Mercurial Kite
- Mesmerizing Benthid
- Misstep
- Mist of Stagnation
- Niblis of Frost
- Ojutai's Breath
- Permafrost Trap
- Press for Answers
- Queen of Ice
- Quiet Contemplation
- Rage of Winter
- Ray of Frost
- Rising Waters
- Rooftop Nuisance
- Rush of Ice
- Saiba Trespassers
- Sand Squid
- Scion of Stygia
- Send to Sleep
- Shipbreaker Kraken
- Sleep
- Sleep of the Dead
- Snow Day
- Somnophore
- Sudden Storm
- Stitched Mangler
- Take into Custody
- Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
- Telekinesis
- Temporal Distortion
- Thalakos Dreamsower
- Tidebinder Mage
- Time of Ice
- Triton Tactics
- Vertigo Spawn
- Wall of Frost
- Wall of Stolen Identity
- Watertrap Weaver
- Wavecrash Triton
- Will of the Naga
- Wrath of Marit Lage
Black
Red
Green
- Blizzard
- Choke
- Clinging Mists
- Elvish Hunter
- Freyalise's Radiance
- Freyalise's Winds
- Joven's Ferrets
- Kashi-Tribe Elite
- Kashi-Tribe Reaver
- Kashi-Tribe Warriors
- Matsu-Tribe Birdstalker
- Matsu-Tribe Decoy
- Matsu-Tribe Sniper
- Mindbender Spores
- Orochi Ranger
- Root Cage
- Spore Cloud
- Tangle
- Thelon's Curse
- Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
Multicolor
Artifacts
Lands
Schemes
Stun counters
White
Blue
References
- ↑ a b c d Mark Rosewater (June 5, 2017). "Mechanical Color Pie 2017". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (October 18, 2021). "Mechanical Color Pie 2021 Changes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.