Snow Covered Lands

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Hi guys,

I'm confused with all the rulings Wizards have made on snow covered
lands. The question I have is are they still named "snow covered
Island" or are they just called "Island" with the snow covered ability?

P.S. This may be a stupid question but its my first post here so please
be nice^^

 

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NerdZilla wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm confused with all the rulings Wizards have made on snow covered
> lands. The question I have is are they still named "snow covered
> Island" or are they just called "Island" with the snow covered ability?
>
> P.S. This may be a stupid question but its my first post here so please
> be nice^^

No, they're still named "Snow-covered Island" and so on. Note that
a Snow-Covered Island is exactly same as an Island except: it's
snow-covered (for the handful of cards that care about snow-coveredness),
and its name is different, which also matters only to a relatively
small number of cards (Scalpelexis comes to mind). It's still a
basic land, so you can have as many as you want in a deck, and its
land type is still Island, so it can still be Islandwalked or affected
by any card that affects Islands (Boil will destroy it, Polluted Delta
can pull one from your deck, etc.).

--
Christopher Mattern

Who still considers his stash of Snow-Covered lands
(I have about thirty of each) one of the high points
of his collection.