Fairy Tail – Snow – #OP19-EN022
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; change it to face-down Defense Position. If this card is in your GY (Quick Effect): You can banish 7 other cards from your hand, field, and/or GY; Special Summon this card.
Date Reviewed: October 3rd, 2024
Rating: 4.42
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Fairy Tail – Snow is our Throwback Thursday choice this week as a monster that resembles someone who might lurk in the White Forest, but long before the archetype came to be.
Banned for a few ban lists at this point, Snow became one of the meta’s most used extenders and one of their worst problems. Book of Moon effect upon Normal or Special Summon doesn’t sound like a troubling effect, but it was the Special Summon ability that was not once per turn that became the problem.
Banishing seven cards from the Graveyard wasn’t too much of a cost because you had your full range of cards to use, not just monsters. Even if you could only banish monsters, I’m not sure that would stop Snow from being problematic. Special Summon from the grave multiple times per turn, multiple Book of Moon effects per turn, AND if any monster activated upon being banished, you got that plus as well. Even if you countered Snow, they could link them away or use them for an Extra Deck summon and summon her again. 60-card decks used her as a primary weapon for Special Summon, replacing something like Gallis the Star Beast as an extender.
It didn’t help that it was a Quick Effect as well and could be used as a disruption multiple times during your opponent’s turn to stop their monsters from using effects, as well as being a body multiple times during the turn to save your bacon (like against Tenpai). Snow was too good and as long as you could fuel her effect she was a great card.
She deserved to be banned and while 60- card decks lost her and That Grass Looks Greener for a time, the latter is back and may still become problematic even in this meta. Snow, unless errata’d to be once per turn for each effect likely won’t come back.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
With support for LIGHT Spellcasters, Throwback Thursday this week was going to be fitting to look at an old generic LIGHT Spellcaster that’s now been banned twice in the TCG: Fairy Tail – Snow.
Snow is a Level 4 LIGHT Spellcaster with 1850 ATK and 1000 DEF. A good ATK stat on a Level 4 monster, plus it’s LIGHT Spellcaster, so always going to be good in that department. The first effect triggers on Normal or Special Summon, letting you target a face-up monster the opponent controls and switch it face-down to Defense Position. Basically a Book of Moon on summon, which is solid on its own, but only becomes good with a Special Summon ability on the opponent’s turn, which this does have. Second effect is a Quick Effect that triggers in your graveyard, letting you banish 7 other cards from your hand, field, and/or graveyard to Special Summon this card. This honestly made Snow a super annoying card to deal with, considering it can always come back at a moment’s notice with the greatest ease in Decks that can fill the graveyard with a ton of cards to help bring this back out. No HOPT clause anywhere, meaning this can be done multiple times in a turn if the situation allows for it, but the banish not being a once per chain can also help strategies that want to banish cards, since you could use the effect again in the same chain, which could also help dodge cards like D.D. Crow and Called by the Grave. It was a frustrating card to deal with, so I don’t know why Konami brought it back not long ago, but thankfully it was for a single format as it ended up banned once again. The OCG is keeping this at 3 right now, so I don’t expect an errata any time soon, meaning it’ll probably be a very long time, if ever, that this comes back. Thankfully it didn’t get to co-exist with Grass once again.
Advanced Rating: 4.5/5
Art: 3.5/5 Be nice to get something to represent the seven dwarves on this art.
Mighty
Vee
One of the more polarizing cards in Yugioh history, Throwback Thursday brings us the notorious LIGHT Spellcaster, Fairy Tail – Snow, a level 4 LIGHT Spellcaster part of the Fairy Tail mini-series. You’re meant to search it with its companion, Fairy Tail – Luna, but you can also grab it with yesterday’s card, Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest (though the decks that abused Snow don’t have to worry about searching it). Snow has a decent stat spread for a level 4 monster, with the trademark 1850 attack giving it synergy with Charmers but a low 1000 defense. Snow is currently free in the OCG but forbidden in the TCG for a variety of reasons, which we will find out soon enough.
Snow has two notably non-once per turn effects, each just as brutal as the other. Upon being Normal or Special Summoned, Snow lets you target and flip an opponent’s monster face-down. This on its own is decent disruption, stopping some combo interactions and putting a wrench into Synchro, Xyz, and Link Summons. It doesn’t sound so bad until you get to Snow’s other effect, a Quick Effect to Special Summon itself from the Graveyard by banishing any 7 cards from among your hand, field, or Graveyard. Again, it’s not once per turn, so any deck that could fill the Graveyard could summon Snow multiple times for a free body and disruption. Snow’s first ban was thanks to Thunder Dragon, Orcust, and Danger! hybrids, decks capable of easily filling the Graveyard, with the former even benefitting from the banishing provided by Snow. Snow was temporarily brought back to limited in the early 2022 banlist and was immediately used by Branded, Tearlaments, and many Synchro decks; as a LIGHT monster, it’s a valid Fusion material for Branded Fusion, and Tearlaments decks could simply send it to the Graveyard through sheer milling power. Any Synchro deck that could make Shooting Riser Dragon (like Synchron or P.U.N.K. hybrids) could send Snow to the Graveyard and bring it back on the next turn, getting both a flip and a nuke by making Black Rose Dragon. While I personally didn’t consider it egregiously problematic in its new form, Konami disagreed and Snow was re-banned two lists later, making it another proverbial “never-ever” banlist card. Could Snow come back again? Maybe, since it would help out Lightsworn a bit and it’s somehow doing almost nothing in the OCG, but it’s probably not worth it. Still an excellent card through and through– not every deck can play it, but if your deck can, play it! If it ever comes back, anyway.
+Provides non-once per turn revival for a body or flips for disruption
+Very easy to access in certain decks
-Needs to be played in Graveyard or banish-heavy decks to avoid losing too many resources
Advanced: 4.75/5
Art: 3.75/5 My social preservation skills forbid me from saying any more…
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