Ice Age

Ice Age
Set Information
Set symbol
Themes and mechanics	Allied colors,; Cantrips,; Snow
Keywords/ability words	Cumulative upkeep
Set size	383; (20 basic lands, 121 commons, 121 uncommons, 121 rares)
Expansion code	ICE
Development codename	ICE

For other uses, see Ice Age (disambiguation).

Ice Age is the first set in the Ice Age block. It is the 6^th Magic expansion and was released in early June, 2002.

Ice Age, containing 383 cards, including basic lands, is notable for being the first standalone Magic expansion set.

Set details

Flavor and storyline

Misprints

Themes and mechanics

Ice Age featured the return of various familiar creature types and also introduced numerous novel ones, some subtypes of which were exclusive to, and even shared the name of, the creature cards on which they were printed. This was not, by the standard practices of the time, unusual, as the design and development of Ice Age was prior to Magic: The Gathering's release to the general public. Since then, several of these unique creature types have been supplanted with other, more-appropriate or more-established creature types or been entirely removed in successive iterations of errata and the Grand Creature Type Update.^[1]^[2] Not unusual for those times, creature types — namely Barbarian, Bear, Fox, Dryad, Goblins, Insect, Knight, Mammoth (now Elephant), Mercenary, Orc, Soldier, Zombies, Wolf, Worm — were printed with the plural number (or, informally, "form").

The following creature types were introduced in Ice Age:

Aurochs
Barbarian
Blinking Spirit (superseded by Spirit)
Brownie (superseded by Ouphe)
Centaur
Dead (superseded by Zombie)
Dinosaur (superseded by Lizard)
Dog (superseded by Hound)
Dryad
Erne (superseded by Bird)
Fiend (superseded by Horror)
Fox
Frostbeast (superseded)
Goat
Gorilla Pack (superseded by Ape)
Hipparion (superseded by Horse)
Illusion
Infernal Denizen (superseded by Demon)
Insect
Kraken
Lemure (superseded by Spirit)
Lhurgoyf
Mage (superseded by Wizard)
Mercenary
Mistfolk (superseded by Illusion)
Ouphe
Pyknite (superseded by Ouphe)
Ranger (deprecated)
Shyft (superseded by Shapeshifter)
Tarpan (superseded by Horse)
Tiger (superseded by Cat)
Titan
Toad (superseded by Frog)
Wight (superseded by Zombie)
Wiitigo (superseded by Yeti)
Wolverine
Worm

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The following creature types that are not new to Magic are used in this expansion:

Angel
Ape (retroactively)
Archer (retroactively)
Artificer (retroactively)
Barbarian
Bear
Bird (retroactively)
Cat (retroactively)
Centaur
Cleric
Druid (retroactively)
Dryad
Elemental (retroactively)
Elephant (retroactively)
Elf
Fox
Frog (retroactively)
Giant
Goat
Goblin
Golem (retroactively)
Horror (retroactively)
Horse (retroactively)
Hound (retroactively)
Human (retroactively)
Hydra
Illusion (retroactively)
Insect
Imp
Knight
Kraken
Lhurgoyf
Lizard (retroactively)
Mercenary
Minion
Mutant (retroactively)
Orc
Ouphe
Plant
Rat
Shade
Shaman (retroactively)
Shapeshifter (retroactively)
Skeleton
Soldier
Specter
Spider
Spirit
Unicorn
Vampire
Wall
Wizard
Wolf
Wolverine
Worm
Wurm
Yeti
Zombie

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The following creature types were used in this expansion at the time of printing but were later changed to other types or removed:

Barbarians (superceded by Barbarian)
Blinking Spirit (superseded by Spirit)
Brownie (superseded by Ouphe)
Dead (superseded by Zombie)
Dinosaur (superseded by Lizard)
Dog (superseded by Hound)
Erne (superseded by Bird)
Fiend (superseded by Horror)
Frostbeast (superseded)
Ghoul (superceded by Zombie)
Gorilla Pack (superseded by Ape)
Hero (superceded by Warrior)
Hipparion (superseded by Horse)
Infernal Denizen (superseded by Demon)
Legend (superceded by the legendary supertype)
Lemure (superseded by Spirit)
Lord (deprecated)
Mage (superseded by Wizard)
Mammoth (superceded by Elephant)
Mistfolk (superseded by Illusion)
Paladin (superceded by Knight)
Phantasm (superceded by Illusion)
Pyknite (superseded by Ouphe)
Ranger (deprecated)
Shyft (superseded by Shapeshifter)

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Cycles

Cycle name	Description and notes	White card(s)	Blue card(s)	Black card(s)	Red card(s)	Green card(s)
Circles of Protection	Each of these uncommon white enchantment cards costs and has an activated ability costing to prevent all of the damage that a source of a given color and of the controller's choice would deal to him or her in a given turn.	Circle of Protection: White	Circle of Protection: Blue	Circle of Protection: Black	Circle of Protection: Red	Circle of Protection: Green
Scarabs	Each of these uncommon white aura enchantment cards costs and has "Enchant creature", "Enchanted creature can't be blocked by [given color] creatures.", and "Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a [given color] permanent.".	White Scarab	Blue Scarab	Black Scarab	Red Scarab	Green Scarab
Monocolored hosers	Each of these cards "hoses" opponents for playing lands associated with one of the card's enemy colors and/or for playing spells of one the card's enemy colors by "punishes", or exerting a negative effect on, opponents. Amongst these, the blue-versus-red/red-versus-blue and black-versus-green/green-versus-black hosers are also mirrored pairs. All of these cards, save for Wrath of Marit Lage and Curse of Marit Lage, which are rare, are uncommon.	Drought (anti-black) Justice (anti-red)	Wrath of Marit Lage (anti-red) Breath of Dreams (anti-green)	Stench of Evil (anti-white) Leshrac's Sigil (anti-green)	Anarchy (anti-white) Curse of Marit Lage (anti-blue)	Thoughtleech (anti-blue) Freyalise's Charm (anti-black)
Multicolored hosers	Each of these rare bicolored cards, of an allied color pairing, benefits its controller by directly or indirectly "hosing" opponents for playing lands associated with the card's common enemy color and/or for playing spells of the card's enemy colors by "punishes", or exerting a negative effect on, opponents. The black/red Ghostly Flame, in and of itself, does not "hose" white, the shared enemy color of the card; rather, it may confer an advantage to black and/or red players by changing the "color of damage" from black and/or red sources to "colorless damage".	Glaciers ()	Flooded Woodlands ()	Ghostly Flame ()	Monsoon ()	Reclamation ()
Tricolored spells	Each of these rare tricolored spells costs NCDE, where C and E are two colors of mana that are allied with D, a third color of mana.	Storm Spirit ()	Merieke Ri Berit ()	Elemental Augury ()	Earthlink ()	Fiery Justice ()
Talismans	Each of these uncommon artifact cards costing have a triggered ability that allows its controller to pay whenever a spell of a given color is cast to untap a target permanent.	Nacre Talisman	Lapis Lazuli Talisman	Onyx Talisman	Hematite Talisman	Malachite Talisman
Depletion lands	Each of these rare dual lands has a mana ability ": Add C or D to your mana pool. [This] doesn't untap during its controller's next untap phase.", where C and D are allied colors of mana. These lands are so named as their "doesn't untap" drawback previously used depletion counters as a reminder of the fact that they could not untap during the next untap phase.	Land Cap ()	River Delta ()	Lava Tubes ()	Timberline Ridge ()	Veldt ()
Pain lands	Each of these rare dual lands has two mana abilities; ": Add to your mana pool." and ": Add C or D to your mana pool. [This] deals 1 damage to you.", where C and D are allied colors of mana.	Adarkar Wastes ()	Underground River ()	Sulfurous Springs ()	Karplusan Forest ()	Brushland ()