Snap Freeze
Snap Freeze is a 1 Mana Cost Common Mage Spell card from the Placeholder set!
Card Text
Freeze a minion.
If it's already Frozen, destroy it.
Flavor Text
Lick the ice block. I triple-double-dog-dare-you.
- Type
- Spell
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Placeholder
- Class
- Mage
- Cost
- 1
- Spell School
- Frost
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Destroy Minion, Freeze
- Artist
- Gonzalo Ordonez
- Collectible
- Yes
Card Review & Interactions
Shatter power creep! But to be honest, even if you power creep it, Shatter was one of the worst cards in the entire game, so even an upgraded version still looks bad. This is what Shatter should have been in the first place, to be honest.
But even after a lift, the card still looks unplayable. We've already established that destroying a frozen minion for 2 mana is terrible. How about Freezing it for 2 mana? Well, Freezing Potion was a card and it has never seen play (outside of the random effects), even though it costs 0. Not to mention that Ice Lance was also a thing (I wanted to say "is", then I've remembered that it was HoF'd a year ago), and it has only seen play for its burst potential.
The only good thing that can be said about it is that when you get it out of a random effect, it's not a completely dead card, like Shatter often was. You can still use it as an overpriced Freezing Potion if you have no way to combo it. Bad card, but not as mind-blowingly bad as Shatter.
Card rating: 1/10
20 Comments
Jawsborn
Shatter 2.0
GlosuuLang
This tries very hard to be Shatter, but fails miserably. Sure, it can remove a big threat that Shatter couldn't otherwise remove. But Shatter could go face (great in Burn Mage) and it also cost 1-mana, and 90% of the time it would remove a minion in the same way that this would. So no, another mediocre spell to dilute Mage's pool of spells. 1.5/5 stars.
Stephen
You're thinking Ice Lance, not Shatter.
GlosuuLang
Yep, sorry, got confused. Too many card names. :)
Arjun Kishore
You mean Ice lance? Shatter destroys a frozen minion
GlosuuLang
Yes, I meant Ice Lance, sorry. :)
GlosuuLang
Yes, I meant Ice Lance. Sorry. :)
Spoon
How is this 2.7 stars? It’s shatter with an added effect of freezing a single minion. At worst it’s a 2 mana freezing potion. At best it’s shatter.
Fluffy
Great for random spell generation, shatter could be totally dead card in your hand, this one at least will boost wyrm, auctioner or the like, or even be discarded
EksSkellybur
Freeze Mage is Coming back, Boiz!
MockRock
Sooo...they saw how horrible Shatter is, realized they screwed up, gave it another spin and...it's still horrible.
Honestly, my theory is that this is a Basic Set contender. The team was talking about how Shatter was a potential contender to go into Mage's core cards, but they may be choosing this instead just to give them something slightly less crappy.
billius
in other words, primordial glyph now has another possible trash card
G
Hooray for that...sincerely...
emile
why doesn't this card have echo?
Hida
are you high?
Howls
That is a marvelous idea!! Would be the best card in the set! :))
Soup And Salad
It's a better version of Shatter, but I'm unsure if the added flexibility will be enough to even play along side Frostbolt.
Actually, I am sure it won't see play at all outside of arena maybe.
Freezin dem hos
Hell yeah baby!!!!!! Give my Moorabi some more tasty treats!!!! xD
Howls
As i see it - this card's biggest drawback (pun intended) is it slows down your deck massively. If you can run it in a freezemage-deck where you draw Aluneth first this might be a great card.
Iain
on this site, Shatter has like 3.5 stars and this card has 2.5???
For the record, this card was quite a disappointment for Mages when The Witchwood came out but at least you have the flexibility that Shatter didn't so it's less of a dead card. But yeah, if they wanted to make a card to upgrade/replace Shatter (which was rotating out) they could've done a better job. Would this be playable if it cost 1 mana? What about 0?
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