First Snow and Shadows cards

By Archrono, in 2. AGoT Rules Discussion

How does first snow of winter effect cards with an sX cost? Since most shadows cards are s1 or s2, does first snow kick them back to the owners hands?
Shadow cards printed cost is a bit different then normal characters, so I'm wondering if it would even effect them at all? (Wishful thinking I'm sure though.)

It's pretty expensive if you're running a shadows heavy deck without hidden chambers or the other shadows reducer, and first snow bounces all your shadow back to your hand. (And wrecks Queen of Thorns built up power.)

Thanks.

Archrono said:

How does first snow of winter effect cards with an sX cost? Since most shadows cards are s1 or s2, does first snow kick them back to the owners hands?
Shadow cards printed cost is a bit different then normal characters, so I'm wondering if it would even effect them at all? (Wishful thinking I'm sure though.)

It's pretty expensive if you're running a shadows heavy deck without hidden chambers or the other shadows reducer, and first snow bounces all your shadow back to your hand. (And wrecks Queen of Thorns built up power.)

Thanks.

The Shadows rules read "If the value of a Shadows card’s “printed cost” must be determined (because
of another card effect), the value is determined by adding the cost of
playing the card into Shadows (two gold) to the cost of bringing the
card out of Shadows"

This would make very few Shadows cards vulnerable to First Snows of Winter, only Shadows cards whose cost is s0 would be affected.

Nice! That makes first snow even more useful. Thanks!