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CardName: Frostpine Elf Cost: G Type: Snow Creature - Elf Druid Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: {T}: Untap target Snow Land. Flavour Text: Having always lived in the frozen regions of Urthona, the Frostpine Elves have, ironically, benefitted from the current crisis. As the ice spreads, so does their power and influence. Set/Rarity: Frostfall Common |
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: Untap target Snow Land.
Yes, this is WAY underpowered outside of the set, but it is beautifully flavourful for the set. I was originally going to have ittap for
(which would have been fine as this is a Snow Creature so that 
could be used for 
payments) but then I might as well just reprint Boreal Druid so I decided to make a Snow version of Arbor Elf instead.
It seems a good compromise. It may be too good in standard constructed, if someone plays with all snow lands, because it can untap any colour, but outside that, the ability to maybe untap any land type is a reasonable trade for not always working and not being able to untap ridiculous non-basics.
and lets face it, how often do people use Snow Lands outside of Ice Age Block anyway?. I think I'll leave it as is for now because I love the flavour In set and see how it goes in testing.
Well, if a person has a reason to run 100% Snow lands, like for example, if their deck had 4 Skred in it, they run snow land. It's not like snow land comes with any inherent drawbacks. So if people had a reason to run snow, they would. That being said, I don't think this card is more powerful than Birds of Paradise with the usual 5 snow lands. This, of course, presumes you don't print a very powerful Wild Growth type enchantment, or anything even close to this:
Usually not broken Snow-land
: Add 
to your mana pool.
, 
: Tap target creature.
Snow Land
Scrying Sheets alone makes this a very powerful card...
Yes, this can make Scrying Sheets stronger - as long as you are happy to hold back the elf and 3 lands to use it every turn, which not all decks do, AND you have to be running lots of snow permanents. Note: Despite the fact that all the lands are Snow Permanents, only about 30%-40% of the set will be Snow Permanents overall - I just thought I'd put them all up front in this set - I may need to move some to the 2nd set of the block so I don't over-saturate the set.
Wild Growth and Arbor Elf can be strong as is anyway, especially with any of the original alpha dual lands that is a forest (and the Ravnica block dual-lands) so I don't really see the issue. I could bump this up to uncommon or make it cost
but I don't think I need to at the moment. As I said, I will keep an eye on it and I am tasking every card into consideration (for possible interactions) as I design this set so a card like the one you suggested won't be happening.
As an in-between between Arbor Elf and Ley Druid, this would probably cost 2 mana. But in a set like this it's interesting and fun to try it at 1.