For this last pack, we're going deep into the snow. I
included a ninth land, in Frostwalk Bastion, as well as the silly card Arcum's
Weathervane. The deep-search of Foresee can also find us more snow lands, or
the payoff for achieving a winter wonderland.



Now I love me some sea monsters. This one requires even more
setup than most, but it'll drag your foe beneath the ice into the freezing
darkness, sure enough. This kraken can turn your opponent's best-planned arctic
adventure in Shackleton's. Can you imagine paying only six mana, with six snow
lands, to cast Icebreaker Kraken? Those are some Constructed dreams. In Limited,
it'll take us much longer to release the kraken.



The good news is that we have some potent cards to help us
survive. Icy Manipulator was always a Limited bomb, tapping down your
opponent's best creature. More annoying, it could freeze lands and leave them
mana screwed. Icebind Pillar is more fair and flavorful, and on the subject, I
want to gush about this artifact's Blue color identity. Giving artifacts color
does much to make them more reasonable. Can you imagine if Embercleave had been
colorless and playable in every deck? The requirement of rr at least prevented
the wildfire from spreading over every aggro deck ever, limiting the damage it
could do to formats.