Nominations for Ice Age Casual Card!

[Spiderman]

As usual, I'll leave the posting of the list of cards to someone else if they want to do it...

Post your card and any defense for it.

Nominations are closed Monday, June 12 at 7:00 AM EST.

 

[turgy22]

Hyalopterous Lemure

Can you tell how much of my criteria is based on art? He's cute and fuzzy and he can fly. I used to always put this card in any black deck for that reason alone.

 

[Limited]

Am I still allowed to nominate a card, now that I am on the committee?

 

[Ransac]

Limited: No, you cannot.


Ransac, cpa trash man

 

[BigBlue]

This nomination is for a young friend of mine... He fell in love with the Chub Toad. So much so, that it became his nickname. He started collecting every copy of the card he could possibly attract and had over 500 of them when I last heard... (I'm not in any magic circles anymore).

For that, his card get's my nomination... for it truly does take a casual card like Chub Toad to generate that much love for a card.

 

[Nightstalkers]

I'd like to note that Illusions of Grandeur is always funny.

 

[orgg]

I've played with this guy. He's not actually "good." He's annoying as all get-out... but undeniably Casual with a capital "C."


Chaos Lord

 

[Oversoul]

Jester's Cap: This card's power is directly proportional to the power of your opponent's deck. Even against a deck full of chaff, it can remove the most dangerous cards. Against a tournament deck, you can cripple the opponent by removing win conditions or key removal spells. With a little mana acceleration, I find it a potent weapon against even cut-throat decks. And it's a card that's full of options. Some choices will always be better than others, but Jester's Cap is one of the only cards in Ice Age that really requires brainpower to use optimally while simultaneously being versatile enough to use in most situations (Necropotence is very much that way, but I don't think I could convince even KJ that Necropotence is casual...). And let's not forget that Jester's Cap comes with a bonus: you can recur it and eat all the good cards out of your opponent's library.

 

[DarthFerret]

I nominate Skeleton Ship. It is only fitting that the first Hall of Fame card from the Ice Age set be a gold card since this set is when they first came into being. Also, this nicely combined the colors correctly. However, I have only seen it used casually, (although it was used REALLY well) and have never seen it in a tournament at all. It takes the essence of black (the -1/-1 counters) and the essence of blue (first, it is a ship, second it dies without Islands in play) and blends them into a workable card. It also has the effect of screaming out the word "TARGET" in almost any casual game. If played in a multi-player game, it has an effect similar to a first turn black vise or royal assasin. All-in-all, of all the multi-colored cards, this is the foremost casual one I could think of.

And P.S., Necropotence is as ineligible as Black Lotus!

 

[Ransac]

Nominations so far:


Hyalopterous Lemure: turgy22
Chub Toad: BigBlue
Illusions of Grandeur: Nightstalkers
Chaos Lord: orgg
Jester's Cap: Oversoul
Skeleton Ship: DarthFerret


Ransac, cpa trash man

 

[Oversoul]

this set is when they first came into being.

No, that was Legends.

 

[orgg]

Ice Age is the set where the gold cards really didn't feel just thrown into the mix, though. They really "came into being" as their own card type(well, classification). Legends had gold cards that kinda felt dissimilar and unconnectedly random.

Ice Age's gold cards fit into the set.

 

[DarthFerret]

That is exactly what I meant orgg. The Legends Gold cards felt like a novelty item that was never really playtested/researched fully. Ice Age seemed to flow more naturally to the game format, the colors, etc...

 

[Mooseman]

White

Adarkar Unicorn
Arctic Foxes
Arenson's Aura
Armor of Faith
Battle Cry
Black Scarab
Blessed Wine
Blinking Spirit
Blue Scarab
Call to Arms
Caribou Range
Circle of Protection: Black
Circle of Protection: Blue
Circle of Protection: Green
Circle of Protection: Red
Circle of Protection: White
Cold Snap
Cooperation
Death Ward
Disenchant
Drought
Elvish Healer
Enduring Renewal
Energy Storm
Formation
Fylgja
General Jarkeld
Green Scarab
Hallowed Ground
Heal
Hipparion
Justice
Kelsinko Ranger
Kjeldoran Elite Guard
Kjeldoran Guard
Kjeldoran Knight
Kjeldoran Phalanx
Kjeldoran Royal Guard
Kjeldoran Skycaptain
Kjeldoran Skyknight
Kjeldoran Warrior
Lightning Blow
Lost Order of Jarkeld
Mercenaries
Order of the Sacred Torch
Order of the White Shield
Prismatic Ward
Rally
Red Scarab
Sacred Boon
Seraph
Shield Bearer
Snow Hound
Swords to Plowshares
Warning
White Scarab

Blue

Arnjlot's Ascent
Balduvian Conjurer
Balduvian Shaman
Binding Grasp
Brainstorm
Breath of Dreams
Clairvoyance
Counterspell
Deflection
Dreams of the Dead
Enervate
Errant Minion
Essence Flare
Force Void
Glacial Wall
Hydroblast
Iceberg
Icy Prison
Illusionary Forces
Illusionary Presence
Illusionary Terrain
Illusionary Wall
Illusions of Grandeur
Infuse
Krovikan Sorcerer
Magus of the Unseen
Mesmeric Trance
Mistfolk
Musician
Mystic Might
Mystic Remora
Phantasmal Mount
Polar Kraken
Portent
Power Sink
Ray of Command
Ray of Erasure
Reality Twist
Sea Spirit
Shyft
Sibilant Spirit
Silver Erne
Sleight of Mind
Snow Devil
Snowfall
Soldevi Machinist
Soul Barrier
Thunder Wall
Updraft
Wind Spirit
Winter's Chill
Word of Undoing
Wrath of Marit Lage
Zur's Weirding
Zuran Enchanter
Zuran Spellcaster

Black

Abyssal Specter
Ashen Ghoul
Brine Shaman
Burnt Offering
Cloak of Confusion
Dance of the Dead
Dark Banishing
Dark Ritual
Demonic Consultation
Dread Wight
Drift of the Dead
Fear
Flow of Maggots
Foul Familiar
Gangrenous Zombies
Gaze of Pain
Gravebind
Hecatomb
Hoar Shade
Howl from Beyond
Hyalopterous Lemure
Icequake
Infernal Darkness
Infernal Denizen
Kjeldoran Dead
Knight of Stromgald
Krovikan Elementalist
Krovikan Fetish
Krovikan Vampire
Legions of Lim-Dul
Leshrac's Rite
Leshrac's Sigil
Lim-Dul's Cohort
Lim-Dul's Hex
Mind Ravel
Mind Warp
Mind Whip
Minion of Leshrac
Minion of Tevesh Szat
Mole Worms
Moor Fiend
Necropotence
Norritt
Oath of Lim-Dul
Pestilence Rats
Pox
Seizures
Songs of the Damned
Soul Burn
Soul Kiss
Spoils of Evil
Spoils of War
Stench of Evil
Stromgald Cabal
Touch of Death
Withering Wisps

Red

Aggression
Anarchy
Avalanche
Balduvian Barbarians
Balduvian Hydra
Barbarian Guides
Battle Frenzy
Bone Shaman
Brand of Ill Omen
Chaos Lord
Chaos Moon
Conquer
Curse of Marit Lage
Dwarven Armory
Errantry
Flame Spirit
Flare
Game of Chaos
Glacial Crevasses
Goblin Mutant
Goblin Sappers
Goblin Ski Patrol
Goblin Snowman
Grizzled Wolverine
Imposing Visage
Incinerate
Jokulhaups
Karplusan Giant
Karplusan Yeti
Lava Burst
Marton Stromgald
Melee
Melting
Meteor Shower
Mountain Goat
Mudslide
Orcish Cannoneers
Orcish Conscripts
Orcish Farmer
Orcish Healer
Orcish Librarian
Orcish Lumberjack
Orcish Squatters
Panic
Pyroblast
Pyroclasm
Sabretooth Tiger
Shatter
Stone Rain
Stone Spirit
Stonehands
Tor Giant
Total War
Vertigo
Wall of Lava
Word of Blasting

Green

Aurochs
Balduvian Bears
Blizzard
Brown Ouphe
Chub Toad
Dire Wolves
Earthlore
Elder Druid
Essence Filter
Fanatical Fever
Folk of the Pines
Forbidden Lore
Forgotten Lore
Foxfire
Freyalise Supplicant
Freyalise's Charm
Freyalise's Winds
Fyndhorn Brownie
Fyndhorn Elder
Fyndhorn Elves
Fyndhorn Pollen
Giant Growth
Gorilla Pack
Hot Springs
Hurricane
Johtull Wurm
Juniper Order Druid
Lhurgoyf
Lure
Maddening Wind
Nature's Lore
Pale Bears
Pygmy Allosaurus
Pyknite
Regeneration
Rime Dryad
Ritual of Subdual
Scaled Wurm
Shambling Strider
Snowblind
Stampede
Stunted Growth
Tarpan
Thermokarst
Thoughtleech
Tinder Wall
Touch of Vitae
Trailblazer
Venomous Breath
Wall of Pine Needles
Whiteout
Wiitigo
Wild Growth
Woolly Mammoths
Woolly Spider
Yavimaya Gnats

Gold

Altar of Bone
Centaur Archer
Chromatic Armor
Diabolic Vision
Earthlink
Elemental Augury
Essence Vortex
Fiery Justice
Fire Covenant
Flooded Woodlands
Fumarole
Ghostly Flame
Giant Trap Door Spider
Glaciers
Hymn of Rebirth
Kjeldoran Frostbeast
Merieke Ri Berit
Monsoon
Mountain Titan
Reclamation
Skeleton Ship
Spectral Shield
Storm Spirit
Stormbind
Wings of Aesthir

Artifact

Adarkar Sentinel
Aegis of the Meek
Amulet of Quoz
Arcum's Sleigh
Arcum's Weathervane
Arcum's Whistle
Barbed Sextant
Baton of Morale
Celestial Sword
Crown of the Ages
Despotic Scepter
Elkin Bottle
Fyndhorn Bow
Goblin Lyre
Hematite Talisman
Ice Cauldron
Icy Manipulator
Infinite Hourglass
Jester's Cap
Jester's Mask
Jeweled Amulet
Lapis Lazuli Talisman
Malachite Talisman
Nacre Talisman
Naked Singularity
Onyx Talisman
Pentagram of the Ages
Pit Trap
Runed Arch
Shield of the Ages
Skull Catapult
Snow Fortress
Soldevi Golem
Soldevi Simulacrum
Staff of the Ages
Sunstone
Time Bomb
Urza's Bauble
Vexing Arcanix
Vibrating Sphere
Walking Wall
Wall of Shields
War Chariot
Whalebone Glider
Zuran Orb

Land

Adarkar Wastes
Brushland
Glacial Chasm
Halls of Mist
Ice Floe
Karplusan Forest
Land Cap
Lava Tubes
River Delta
Snow-Covered Forest
Snow-Covered Island
Snow-Covered Mountain
Snow-Covered Plains
Snow-Covered Swamp
Sulfurous Springs
Timberline Ridge
Underground River
Veldt

 

[turgy22]

So who's going to nominate Snow-Covered Plains? I know somebody's thinking about it.

 

[BigBlue]

I was actually thinking about that turgy.... but, I don't even know a casual player who plays with them... so, they are just used for proxies... (Which I suppose does make them the most casual card in a sense...) I used Snow covered Swamps in a few decks... I don't think any other snow covered land was ever used in my playgroup... Maybe forests or mountains for some reason or other...

 

[DarthFerret]

The only Snow Covered I ever used was the Forests, and that was just to power my Trample Critters. Aurochs, etc. Never really had much use for them although I still say someday I will build the Blue Cumulitive Upkeep deck that will utilze Snow Covered Islands to pay for that upkeep. Somehow, I never get around to it though...

 

[Oversoul]

I was actually thinking about that turgy.... but, I don't even know a casual player who plays with them... so, they are just used for proxies... (Which I suppose does make them the most casual card in a sense...) I used Snow covered Swamps in a few decks... I don't think any other snow covered land was ever used in my playgroup... Maybe forests or mountains for some reason or other...

I've seen them all used on occasion. They can help out a little against things like Scalpalexis, which one friend of mine used a lot back when it came out...

And then there's the almighty Snowfall.

 

[Lythand]

Necropotance.

 

[Ferret]

Brainstorm. The card was perfect for a first turn move. You could use it to set up your next few moves which is critical in the early game - especially in multiplayer when most people spend the first couple of rounds just trying to get the right land combinations in play.

-Ferret

"Imagine that: Ferret picks a Blue card..."