Ice Age || Crack-A-Pack - Aug 31, 2021

I mean burnt offering could t1 a gristlebrand with allasarous rider no? Exile 2 green cards play it, swamp dark ritual, burnt offering, gristlebrand. Thats a legacy legal set of 7 cards. Ritual could be a lotus petal as well. Its basically neobrand just without the tutoring aspect of neoform.

Edit: Dark Ritual in the pack. That means you can get of these cards in Ice age limited. Offering, ritual, swamp and 2 green cards to pitch. Oddly rider is a coldsnap card and you could argue on drafting both together, then just cheat and put Gristlebrand in your deck.

Dragonfly needed scale birds clearly.

Norritt+Arcanis mean it draws 3 cards.

Idk, I think you justify as a bear. Don't sell yourself short lol

Yes I see you as a 2/2 for 2.

I'll always have a soft spot for Shambling Strider. First MTG card I ever laid eyes on.

Norritt + Leviathan was usually a finisher in my deck back in the day (with optional Jump or Invisibility)

The model for Mesmeric Trance is indeed somebody that Dan knows. I know him too, and game with him moderately regularly. Most of the humans that the Boulder Magic artists (Mike Kimble, Dan Frazier, Doug Shuler) painted for their cards are people that I've LARPed with in the same games as Mike, Dan, and Doug.

Norritt was the first mtg card I owned

If I were drafting from that pack, I'd probably take the Unicorn. With all the cumulative upkeep synergy in that set, it seems like having the unicorn would greatly help. Especially considering Mystic Remora was a common in the set, it would really help towards the longetivity and value of your mystic remoras as well as keeping mana open for your plays later on. Plus it also keeps you in white and blue which is arguably the strongest color pairing in the set giving you access to cards like swords to plowshares and brainstorm
Also while looking into what cards were in this set, I discovered a card called "Musician" which I now desperately want. I also really wanna draft Ice Age now. Seems like a really fun draft.

Orcish Farmer is a BOMB in Rakdos swampwalk 😭

Withering Wisps is awesome in my Vhati il-Dal pestilence deck.

My uncle introduced me to magic when 4th edition came out. I still remember seeing the black lotus In my local lgs for $300

dragonfly with banana for scale

there are lots of Norritts, and Istvan is their uncle

Norritt is actually pretty good for commander because it can force utility creatures to swing out when a play would want to keep them back. Mana dorks that get used for mana just die etc...

This series is good for picking out old cards that might be fun for commander

Graham, Noritt, much like Nettling Imp and Royal Assassin was used to just murder many creatures for value, a truly great card

Ice age didn't have a Prodigal Sorc, but they did have the Zuran Spellcaster, which is exactly the same thing.

man, they sure designed differently back then...

"I used a contraction of it is there when that's not what's written, it says counter target spell if it is red or destroy target permanent if it is red."
Boy, you have nothing to say about Hydroblast, huh.

Orcish Farmer with Bog Wraith and Lost Soul.

So the Soldevi predicted Mark Hamill in Knightfall, huh...

A “sapper” is a person in a military that breaches fortifications etc. originally, they would tunnel under a wall and then try to bring it down by either digging or burning out the supports.

This seems to be what the goblin sappers are trying to do based on the art, and why they can make a creature unblockable.

Sapping was also highly dangerous and not a really fun job. Hence, for RR your creature is unblockable, but the sappers die lol.

Holy Cats! That looks exactly like an angry Mark Hamil!

Ugh I soooo miss all the beautiful old arts rather than the stupid hyper realistic garbage we have nonstop nowadays.

Don’t miss the bad cards though.

The Simulacrum art is based on a real person, but I cannot recall who. I saw him at Gen Con back in the 90s.

Absolutely love Tedin's art. Beautiful.

The dragonfly needed a banana for scale obviously

Back in 1995 i was so excited about starting playing magic that i invested the few coins i had (i was a kid) in a 60 card ice age pack . I open the pack and realize that the deck was so random built that was almost impossible to play with it. That was such a disappointment that a quit the game even before starting it. Thankfully i rediscover the game a few years later but not thanks to ice age ... 😅😅

ice age has my favorite art in all of magic Pit trap the art is amazing

oh, you're lucky. You got the one in 3 Ice Age booster that didn't come with Gaze of Pain. Congratulations! An Ice Age/Cold Snap/Kaldheim mixed draft would be fun.

If you timetravel to the nineties, maybe pick up a couple of lotuses tho

We need a banna for scale to judge how big that dragonfly really is. Come on WOTC

Totally started magic the same way with ice age

I started to play Magic because of the art of Norritt :)

What would be the rules for Snow lands in Ice Age draft? Unlike Kaldheim, they aren't seeded into the boosters - they only came in Starter Decks and precons. So I guess after you draft you can fill with snow lands instead of normal lands if you'd like? The value of the Pestilence in the draft greatly weighs on this

That dragonfly art is definitely repurposed from a creature that got cut.

you take dark ritual and then turn 2 Norritt, duh.

No joke: my first MTG products were Revised Starter Boxes...I didn't know they weren't decks until JUST NOW.

Burnt offering is a good piece of gear. In a deck that wants things to die, in those colors, at instant speed, I’ve found it quite useful.

Isn't Withering Wisps just snow Pestilence?

burnt offering is used in some mono-black pauper decks

ORCISH FARMER, GET YOUR PIG READY

Timeless

The caveat on withering wisps feels pretty directly targeted at preventing shenanigans with Dark Ritual

Ah, Ice Age. My first expansion set. (Began playing just after Fourth Edition came out, though I had no idea what the hell that meant.)

Believe it or not (and it may be hard to believe after looking at the contents of this pack) Ice Age was actually meant to be a "proper" standalone set that had every tool necessary to play on its' own. As it turns out, that was probably a bit ambitious. I have played in an Ice Age only Sealed Deck event. It was not pretty. Mirage was probably the first set that can truly stand on its own.

Withering Wisps would actually be my first pick, as it honestly does provide hellagood board control as long as you have a creature that can be kept alive, but Shambling Strider is also a very good choice. It will whip most every other creature your opponent plays, and red has two good common removal spells in Incinerate and Lava Burst to try to clear the runway.

Centaurcher

Five Color Bad Stuff: Ice Age Starter Pack