Why Ice Age?
Ice Age has several purposes. First, it’s a new way to try Magic. You can pick up a starter deck of Ice Age and start playing right away, just as you do with regular Magic. Second, it will help counter the “Mr. Suitcase” effect: ultra-powerful decks constructed by players with larger bankrolls than many small countries. Since players can choose to play Magic with nothing but Ice Age cards, they don’t have to be at the mercy of killer decks. By building Ice Age-only decks, you and your friends can play Magic games that will be determined more by skill than by purchasing power, and league and tournament play will be easy to govern. Finally, Ice Age works like a regular expansion, with all-new artwork and lots of new cards you can add to your collection and to your decks. Ice Age isn’t just Magic 4th Edition with new art. Ice Age has many new cards and card concepts, and has been designed to introduce new styles of play. If you took a big chunk of Magic 4th Edition starters and built deck
