Black Ice

Casual

Thundagawd

Creature (20)

• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Blazing Archon
• 2x Blood Artist
• 1x Herald of Leshrac
• 4x Precinct Captain
• 2x Rimebound Dead
• 2x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 4x Twilight Drover
• 2x Vampire Hexmage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Land (24)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Dark Depths
• 2x Ice Floe
• 2x Orzhov Basilica
• 9x Snow-Covered Plains
• 7x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 2x Thespian's Stage

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Concerted Effort
• 1x Debtors' Knell

Artifact (6)

• 2x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Smokestack
• 2x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (7)

• 1x Festival of the Guildpact
• 2x Grim Harvest
• 2x Murder
• 2x Sun's Bounty

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 2x God-Favored General
• 1x Knight of the Holy Nimbus

Land (2)

• 2x Scrying Sheets

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Conclave's Blessing
• 2x Darkest Hour
• 2x Ghostly Prison

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

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Maybeboard

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Ajani, Caller of the Pride
• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Elspeth Tirel
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1x Sorin, Solemn Visitor

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Long story short, I recently began playing MTG again after a rather long hiatus, last time I played was around the release of Coldsnap back in 2006 or so. This is essentially a retouched variation of the deck I used to play back then utilizing some newer cards to enhance the core strategy of the deck, which was mainly token generation to fuel the abilities of other cards.

• Precinct Captain s & Elspeth, Sun's Champion to generate counters to provide the Teysa, Orzhov Scion's & the Twilight Drovers fodder for their abilities.
• Pariah's Shield + Rimebound Dead or the Marit Lage spawned from Dark Depths to redirect damage away from the player.
• Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage to get the 20/20 out in a single turn (as early as turn 3).
• Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage . Thespian's Stage is already on the battlefield when the copying effect is used, therefore you could copy Dark Depths, and the copy would have no ice counters so it would immediately be sacrificed and summon the 20/20. Paired with the Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage combo, this means you could have 2 indestructible Flying 20/20's out by turn 4.
• Adarkar Valkyrie and Debtors' Knell to steal creatures as they're killed off (works well with Smokestack).
• Blood Artist + Smokestack + Tokens to both cripple the Enemy, buff up the Twilight Drovers & deal consistent damage every turn (And regain Health).
• Blazing Archon + Whispersilk Cloak or Dark Depths + Pariah's Shield + Whispersilk Cloak for near-invincibility.

Suggestions & feedback would be much appreciated regarding the current deck build, I just took out a bunch of "meh" cards from my original deck to add in more stuff pertaining to the core strategy like Precinct Captain and God-Favored General , but I haven't played in a very long time and I don't know if some cards would be better than what I'm currently using.

Edit: Took into account emask and ArtificialA's suggestions, moved some of my previous cards to the sideboard, and stumbled upon Vampire Hexmage while looking around for more potential cards, and immediately threw it into the deck, as Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage not only sounds absolutely OP, but also extremely unexpected, as most people will assume it will take several turns to get rid of all the counters, whereas in this case it could take as little as just one.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage Pariah's Shield + Rimebound Dead Blood Artist + Smokestack Blazing Archon + Whispersilk Cloak Dark Depths + Pariah's Shield + Whispersilk Cloak
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 5 Rares 14 - 5 Uncommons 8 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Enchantment Soldier 1/1 W, Marit Lage, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W
Folders	casual, Casual