Winter, Team Player — ruling 1

If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.

Winter, Team Player — ruling 2

Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.

Winter, Team Player — ruling 3

Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.

Winter, Team Player — ruling 4

Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.

Winter, Team Player — ruling 5

You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

Winter, Team Player — ruling 6

Winter's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.

Winter, Team Player — ruling 7

When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

Winter, Team Player : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Winter, Team Player is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

How it works : Winter, Team Player

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature you control has a mana ability with in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#6August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
Winter's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#7August 21, 2026· Wizards of the Coast
When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
No other card is named in this ruling.