Winter Orb
Mana cost {2}.
As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
Winter Orb is legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Fourth Edition printing.
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Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €9.47 and €12.51 in that time.
How often Winter Orb is played
Winter Orb is maindecked in 9 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (7%), averaging 3.0 copies; kept in 2 sideboards (2%); used by 3 of 33 tracked archetypes.
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Winter Orb
- MUD: While it is untapped, players untap only one land. It holds the opponent to one or two spells a turn and does not touch artifact mana. It turns off while tapped or phased out, so an opposing Ice or Icy Manipulator on it, or Vision Charm phasing it out, gives them a full untap. Never tap your own Orb to Tangle Wire.
Sideboard plans with Winter Orb
- Elves vs. Control and land-based decks. About a third of the sideboards have two or three Winter Orb, and the white build plays Armageddon in the main deck or sideboard. Your mana creatures untap and keep making mana under Winter Orb and after Armageddon, but Armageddon also destroys your Gaea's Cradle.
- White Weenie vs. Landstill, Tron, BW Control, Dromar Control and The Solution. Against Landstill and Tron also bring Cursed Scroll and Winter Orb; out: Worship, Glorious Anthem and two Silver Knight. Winter Orb lets each player untap only one land, which hurts a deck of counterspells more than your one- and two-drops, and Spiritual Focus gains you 2 life and draws a card for each card their Duress or Gerrard's Verdict makes you discard.
- White Weenie vs. Psychatog and Gro-a-Tog. In: both Tormod's Crypt and the second Cursed Scroll, plus Winter Orb against Psychatog or Absolute Law against Gro-a-Tog.
Tournament decks with Winter Orb
- MUD: 1st Place at Semanal Premodern (3× sideboard)
- Big Mono Green: 5th Place at Finland Nationals 2026 (3× mainboard)
- Beefcake: 1st Place at Bolt the Bird (4× mainboard)
- Red Broccoli Soup: 2nd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante La Casa dei Giochi (2× sideboard)
- Colorless MUD Stax: 2nd Place at Liga Feijoada @ Santa Cruz (4× mainboard)
- 5C Wizards: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá - UGCardShop (3× mainboard)
- Tropical Naught: 2nd Place at Mensual Premodern Valencia (2× mainboard)
- MUD: 1st Place at Full Tapped - Summer Season (3× mainboard)
- Merfolks: 1st Place at Tribal Wars Premodern Brazil (4× mainboard)
- Welder Survival: 1st Place at 1K @ SCG CON Washington (1× mainboard)
- 5C Wizards Orb: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá – UGCardShop (3× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Winter Orb
- Pirates (4×)
- Chronatog Stax (4×)
- Tropical Naught (2×)
