Glacial Grasp

Glacial Grasp

Instant

Mana cost: {2}{U}

How we read this card

Tap target creature. Its controller mills two cards. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

on-cast —

on-cast — mills a card

on-cast — keeps permanents from untapping

Draw a card.

on-cast — draws you 1 card

Causes: tap a creature, mill a card, draw a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature becomes tapped — 565 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

  1. Chrome Companion — When Chrome Companion becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, it gains you 1 life
  2. Unctus, Grand Metatect — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Unctus, Grand Metatect draws you 1 card
  3. Sharae of Numbing Depths — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Sharae of Numbing Depths draws you 1 card
  4. Rewrite History — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Rewrite History draws you 1 card
  5. Stinging Licid — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Stinging Licid deals 2 damage
  6. Gideon's Avenger — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Gideon's Avenger puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Icewrought Sentry — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Icewrought Sentry gets +2/+1
  8. Cryoshatter — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Cryoshatter kills a creature
  9. Don't Move — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Don't Move kills a creature
  10. Hylda of the Icy Crown — When a creature becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, Hylda of the Icy Crown triggers

12 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything becomes tapped — 699 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

  1. Master Pakku — When Master Pakku becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, it mills a card
  2. Gran-Gran — When Gran-Gran becomes tapped thanks to Glacial Grasp, it draws you 1 card

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is milled — 772 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

  1. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — When a permanent makes a player mill a card thanks to Glacial Grasp, Lo and Li, Royal Advisors puts a counter on an Advisor

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

When Glacial Grasp makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

When Glacial Grasp is cast:

  1. Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
  2. Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
  3. Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
  4. Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  6. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  7. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
  8. Harness the Storm — brings a card back
  9. In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
  10. Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls

427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

  1. Fire Nation Salvagers — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Fire Nation Salvagers can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Heart-Shaped Herb — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  4. Enlightened Confidant — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  5. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back
  6. Grazing Kelpie — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Grazing Kelpie can bring back
  7. Dauthi Voidwalker — Cards Glacial Grasp would put into an opponent's graveyard are exiled by Dauthi Voidwalker instead, and it can play from among them
  8. Spurnmage Advocate — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Spurnmage Advocate can bring back
  9. Endurance — Glacial Grasp puts cards into the graveyard that Endurance can bring back
  10. Merfolk Windrobber — Glacial Grasp fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Merfolk Windrobber needs

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Glacial Grasp:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  5. Compost — draws you 1 card
  6. Planar Void — hits a graveyard

5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Glacial Grasp is one).

When Glacial Grasp is cast:

  1. Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
  2. Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
  3. Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
  4. Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
  5. Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
  6. Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
  7. Master of Winds — triggers

5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.