..again. Wizards of the Coast is releasing an expansion for their Ice Age set. Yes, you heard it right, they’re releasing an expansion for a set that was made about 10 years ago in the dusky days of my high school career (+feels old).
To be fair, Ice Age was a bit before its time. Since its creation Wizards continued with their tradition of having one shot expansions. Ice Age was meant to be like the later sets, I believe debuing with Tempest, that were in cycles of three; the first set came out with the largest amount of cards and also the run of lands and then the story was advanced through the next two sets. Ice Age had the first and the third (I think) but it was missing one..
Enter Coldsnap, Ice Age’s long lost sibling. Not much is currently known about this new expansion, well, by me at least. It seems that rather than re-release the run of snow-covered lands, we’re going to see snow-covered permanents and a new kind of mana specifically for this set. So now, instead of worrying about all those snow-covered swamps (regarding which the designers brought up a good point about, in a frozen land, isn’t everything snow-covered?) instead you might have some snowy elves or chilly artifacts that you can tap for this new and improved mana cost. It’ll have it’s own symbol, of course, which is nice. However this just kinda seems like another way to handle the same thing we already had with the snow-covered lands.. without having a second grouping of lands. I don’t mind, I suppose.
Regardless, I figure I’ll pick up some packs, I usually do. The pre-release events for this set are this week (7/8-7/9) so I assume that they should hit shelves next week or the one after that.
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