This card, like the other four friendly-colored
two-color uncommon Snow lands from Coldsnap,
provides a lot of value for Coldsnap limited
decks, while not quite making the cut for
constructed play. In limited, Tresserhorn Sinks
and its four friendly-colored brothers make your
three colored Coldsnap limited decks feasible
and make your two color Coldsnap limited decks
even better. These lands don't seem worthy of
constructed play, at least until snow land
strategies become more valuable in constructed
formats.
All of these lands aren't impressive. They
aren't that much different than the lands from
Invasion that we had for years. The largest
difference though is that they are snow
permanents. So, these help with any deck that
needs a lot of snow permanents. Outside of that,
they aren't very exciting. The game has a ton of
multicolored lands right now in every format.
One of five dual snow lands from Coldsnap, this
works identically to the 8th Edition taplands
except for one thing-- the snow supertype. That
means it can produce snow mana to give your
Goblin Rimerunners haste or pump your Chilling
Shades. The downside of this? Freyalise's
Radiance and Zombie Musher are all that come to
mind. So, except for those two cards, this is
essentially a Blood Crypt that makes the
comes-into-play choice for you.
In casual this and its ilk will definitely see
play because they are uncommon dual lands,
meaning they do almost the same thing as Blood
Crypt but don't cost $20 apiece to get. In
Limited, they're the best mana fixing there is
and can even be searched for with Into the
North. In Constructed, they're outclassed, but
any snow deck would use them.
