Winter, Cursed Rider — Cold Command
Winter, Cursed Rider is a compact commander or finish-line threat that taxes opposing removal and turns your artifact drift into board control. The card rewards a graveyard strategy by converting spent artifacts into a sweeping negative buff, and its ward ability forces opponents to make awkward choices. Play it in a tempo shell where recurring artifacts fuel X or in a control build that can leverage the ward tax to buy a turn.
The foil shown is Near Mint and carries the Aetherdrift signature look with crisp art and a reflective treatment that catches light across the border. In play Winter, Cursed Rider protects your key pieces, grants that protection to all artifacts you control, and can exhaust the graveyard to shrink opposing creatures by the number of artifacts you exile. Experienced players will slot it where artifact recursion and board-wide suppression matter most. Add this foil to a collection or a competitive cube for a reliable piece of utility and flavor.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {U}{B}
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Card Type – Legendary Creature
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Subtypes – Human Warlock
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Ward — Pay 2 life. Artifacts you control have "Ward — Pay 2 life." Exhaust — {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Exile X artifact cards from your graveyard: Each other nonartifact creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
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Power / Toughness – 3/2