Thawing Glaciers
Judge Gift Cards 2010 4 • rare
- Set
- Judge Gift Cards 2010
- Collector number
- 4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jim Nelson
- Finish
- Foil
- Market price
- $116.81
What it does
This land enters tapped.
1 generic mana, tap: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Thawing Glaciers was originally released as a rare land card in the 1996 Alliances expansion for Magic: The Gathering. It was designed to facilitate mana ramping by allowing players to search their library for basic lands, a utility that cemented its status as a staple in Commander and various casual formats for its ability to provide long-term land advantage at the cost of returning to the hand.
This specific version, released in 2010, was a promotional card distributed exclusively to judges as part of the Judge Gift Program. The artwork was provided by Jim Nelson, whose style for this piece emphasizes the slow, majestic erosion of an icy landscape, aligning with the card's mechanical theme of gradual development. The foil treatment and unique border design made this printing a sought-after piece for collectors looking to upgrade the aesthetic of their decks with tournament-legal, limited-distribution art.
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