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Susceptible to Cold (Ex) Magical cold stuns a mihstu rather than damaging it. If the creature fails its save against a magical cold effect, it is stunned for 1 round and then staggered for an additional 1d4 rounds.
The description heavily implies that a Mihstu takes no damage from magical cold effects, but then only states what happens on a failed save vs. such effects.
A. Does a Mihstu still take damage from a cold effect on a failed save in addition to being stunned?
B. Does it take damage from a cold effect on a successful save? If it does, then why doesn't it take damage on a failed save? Surely, being stunned for 1 round vs. a Cone of Cold isn't nearly as beneficial as the same outcome vs. Chill Touch? If it doesn't take damage, that makes even less sense, because it now has complete immunity to cold damage as long as it makes a save vs. an effect that it's supposed to be extra susceptible to.
C. Vs. magical cold effects that don't grant a saving throw, does the effect function normally? Is the Mihstu instead Stunned as per the description? Is it stunned on top of taking damage? Does it take no damage and avoid being stunned, due to the absence of a save?
In the absence of information on what happens on a successful save I believe that a Mihstu is affected by cold normally if it makes it's save, but does not take damage if it fails.
A: No.
B: Yes it takes damage normally.
C: Yes it functions normally - susceptibility only kicks in on a failed save.
Weird stuff. Not sure how to flavour the immunity to damage. If it saves it's form is disrupted, but on a failed save it's form is frozen in place, but no disruption occurs? Being stunned is a pretty major debuff.