ice age cards mtg Blue dragon on top left of card. : r/magicTCG Basic Snow Land — Island Illusionary Forces

Because it comes down early, you can usually swing in and poison someone before they get blockers

Leonin Warleader is also a must-answer threat, and overall the deck does a good job at building a battlefield presence rather quickly

Then the -2, which can be done twice with the starting loyalty of five, will make two 1/1 Nightmare tokens that will grow with +1/+1 counters permanently if you exiled a card this turn

Even your foes so you can play politics

A draft player might even build around this and favor high-toughness creatures in their decks or focus on reanimation

Its interaction with Witch's Oven was a frustrating one to try and get around, and made a pretty nice life drain loop