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It's been a while since we've had a new Magic expansion to talk about, only Kaldheim has been well worth the expect! Magic's newest expansion looks to exist 1 of the most exciting releases in quite some fourth dimension that captures the essence of the nostalgic, old-time brand of flavour that I've always loved and appreciated almost the game. It'south a fix that I've been excited to scout spoiled and look forward to playing with in the coming weeks.

From the perspective of a long-time player and fan, I'm extremely enthused and optimistic about the direction of the ii latest Magic sets (Commander Legends and now Kaldheim) and what they signify to me about the future of the game going forrad. These sets experience like they were designed for paper play more then than other sets from the past year that experience like they translate better to the Loonshit style of play where entire formats are defined by a handful of absurdly broken cards:

"Defining game pieces of the Magic Arena era"

Oko, Companions, and Uro, for instance, are all fairly recent designs that exemplify the dynamic I'chiliad describing where unabridged metagames and formats were upended by the power vacuum of absurdly broken designs.

1 of the things I love about playing Cube, Boxing Box and specifically my Danger Room stack is that it provides some relief from these dominant designs and opens upward space where other cards and more traditional play patterns can exist enjoyed.

I've played for a long time and I relish nostalgic old cards, besides every bit interesting new ones, and a Battle Box is a format where the best of both worlds are able to intersect and be enjoyed.

At this bespeak in my life, as a Magic enthusiast, the most important characteristics I await for in a fix are the experience and flavor. I no longer play the game with any competitive goals or agendas in mind, so whenever and wherever I sit to sling cards, the number 1 thing I'm concerned with is enjoying the games.

When I do a Battle Box review the chief thing I'grand looking for are cards that accept excellent feel and flavor that improve the remainder and fluidity of play in my stack. I'thousand also looking for cards that are unique and/or have exciting season.

What makes Kaldheim so special? Aside from that fact at that place are clearly a lot of sweet cards for Battle Box, I'thousand a sucker for the neo-Water ice Age vibe the fix is touting. Unfortunately, most of the bodily cards from the bodily Ice Age block are weak to line up against modern designs, but Kaldheim brings that Water ice Age vibe as well as a more consequent ability level and blueprint.

I dear the harshness of the surround and seeing the people and monsters that dwell in hostile fantasy climates such every bit Dominaria's Ice Historic period or now Kaldheim.

The first matter nosotros demand to talk almost in terms of Danger Room is the critical role that the snow mechanic plays in Kaldheim and how that'll be incorporated into my stack. I've always gone out of my way to proceed the rules of Danger Room simple and straightforward and not to make special rules to make specific cards piece of work.

A lot of people have suggested: Why not just add together Path to Exile and say players can't search?

My thinking has always been: why should I make special exceptions to make specific cards work when there are so many options that don't require special considerations? Also, there are enough of opportunities to bandage a Path to Exile in other formats, so why practise I demand to shoehorn it into my format?

Snow mana has fallen into like territory in the by. The biggest downside of using snow lands in a Battle Box is cosmetic. The toll is you take less sweet options in regards to which vintage nuts yous can play.

In the past, this was an easy "no sir" for me because I didn't recall whatever of the "snow matters" cards I was excluding were so interesting that I wouldn't rather play with a Beta Swamp instead. Kaldehim shakes that upwardly quite a bit because there are a lot of snow-matters cards that are not only skillful, simply also flavorful and unique. So, it felt similar a skilful time to exist less rigid and experiment with some new concepts in my stack.

"What's cooler than being cool? Ice Cold!"

Information technology's also of note that there'due south a brand new prepare of mutual ETB tapped snowfall duals (as well every bit basics) which makes it an ideal time for Battle Boxers to option these ups for their collections. The uncommon ETB Coldsnap snow duals have actually gotten quite expensive and these will provide the exact aforementioned functionality at a fraction of the cost.

Perhaps the most interesting innovation to Battle Boxing in the by 365 has been the release of the Thriving land cycle.

Personally, I think the Thriving lands create a more interesting and superior play design than ETB tapped duals like a traditional Salt Marsh considering they allow you lot to be more flexible with your mana development. Information technology's never a bad affair to requite players more choices and flexibility in terms of how to sequence their plays. It's kind of absurd that now in that location are lots of potential ways to construct mana bases for a Battle Box to choose from.

I don't call back at that place's an objective right or wrong choice here, merely rather it comes downwardly to what kind of game yous're looking to foster with your stack and what types of dynamics you'd like to emphasize.

I'm finally ready to fudge the rules a little bit in gild to create infinite in my stack for something that I think is worth making an exception for: Season!

I really don't have an issue with just using Thriving lands and Beta Basics, APAC or seventh Edition nuts (whatever you lot enjoy) and creating a blanket rule that says "all lands have snow typing."

Substantially, I'd like to have the snow mechanic role like:

More or less, Snow has two primary functions. 1. It's something that is checked to see if you lot take it for the purposes of enabling an ability. ii It's something yous count to run into how many you have in order to establish how much of an effect y'all become.

Again, you could merely use snow basics and duals and none of this fifty-fifty matters, just I personally like the Thriving lands and want to go along using them. In fact, once the pandemic ends, I'll likely have a few sets of Thriving duals altered to be snow Thriving lands for my box (assuming I terminate up liking how snow plays in the stack).

With that said, today'south update will include "snow matters" cards with the understanding that I'thousand not giving upwards my Thriving lands nor my favorite basic land artwork cards. So, past far the biggest innovation Kaldheim will bring to my Danger Room stack is that for the first fourth dimension, snowfall will exist a supported subtheme and I'1000 direct-upward willing to bend my ain rules in guild to brand it happen.

I've never been willing to bend overarching rules of my sample of the format to brand cards work, simply I'one thousand okay with bending the rules to heighten flavor.

The sheer magnitude of cards in the stack has typically led to some mistakes in the list. I'g going to try my all-time to go everything as exactly right as possible this fourth dimension around. If you find 3 cards being added, and only two cards coming out, it's considering the list from the previous commodity was one carte brusque, etc.

ARTIFACTS & COLORLESS (60 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

Kaldheim didn't have a ton of artifacts to choose from and the ones that felt shut all roughshod a little short of breaking into my lx artifacts for one reason or another. But put, cipher felt amend or more interesting than what I already had!

one Aether Spellbomb ane Awakened Amalgam i Basilisk Collar 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe 1 Bonesplitter 1 Chamber Sentry 1 Cliffhaven Kitesail i Clockwork Retainer 1 Conqueror'southward Flail 1 Contagion Clasp one Crystal Shard 1 Crystalline Giant 1 Duplicant 1 Endless One 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Epochrasite i Etched Oracle 1 Filigree Familiar 1 Flayer Husk 1 Fleetwheel Cruiser i Fountain of Renewal ane Gingerbrute 1 Hangarback Walker 1 It of the Horrid Swarm 1 Kitesail one Leonin Bola one Lightning Greaves 1 Loxodon Warhammer 1 Maelstrom Colossus one Mask of Retention 1 Meteor Golem i Myriad Construct 1 Nevinyrral'south Disk 1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Sai of the Shinobi 1 Peace Strider 1 Pentavus one Perilous Myr ane Perilous Vault one Pierce Strider 1 Power Matrix 1 Pyrite Spellbomb 1 Runechanter'due south State highway 1 Scrapheap Scrounger 1 Serrated Arrows 1 Shadowspear 1 Point Pest 1 Skyscanner 1 Smuggler's Copter 1 Soul-Guide Lantern i Spellskite 1 Stitcher's Graft 1 Stonecoil Snake 1 Sylvok Lifestaff 1 Treasure Keeper ane Trip Noose i Triskelavus i Triskelion 1 Voyager Staff 1 Walking Ballista

Multicolor (280 Cards)

I wasn't super impressed with the multicolored designs from Kaldheim and left about of them out of my stack. I did add a Golgari, Orzhov and Dimir card that I liked. In full general, I find near of these multicolor spells to inform specific types of micro synergies that I simply can infuse deeply enough into my stack to make them piece of work! There are a lot of tiresome designs where at to the lowest degree 1 of the modes feels similar a dud that'll brick and won't work properly in too many games.

Then, there's not many changes to multicolor spells, but the truthful trove of awesome cards in this fix are the mono colored spells. Kaldheim is not a multicolor themed set up, information technology's a snow set, and that's the pool of cards I'm going to be drawing virtually actively from in today'southward update.

 3 Color Shards and Wedges (thirty CARDS)

NO CHANGES

ane Abzan Amuse i Anafenza, the Foremost 1 Arcades, the Strategist 1 Bant Charm 1 Crackling Doom ane Darigaaz'south Charm ane Doran, the Siege Tower one Dromar's Charm 1 Fiery Justice 1 Gwendlyn Di Corci 1 Jund Charm 1 Lightning Angel i Mantis Passenger ane Marath, Will of the Wild 1 Mardu Charm 1 Mathas, Fiend Seeker 1 Punish Ignorance 1 Rhox War Monk 1 Rise/Fall one Barbarous Knuckleblade one Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 1 Slave of Bolas 1 Sprouting Thrinax ane Sultai Amuse 1 Temur Ascendancy i Temur Charm one The Mimeoplasm one Trial/Error 1 Vadrok, Apex of Thunder 1 Woolly Thoctar

Social club (Two Colour) Multicolored Spells (250, 25 of Each Combination)

AZORIUS (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

one Blot 1 Azorius Guildmage 1 Cloudblazer 1 Depose/Deploy ane Dovin's Acuity ane Dovin's Veto ane Elite Guardmage 1 Hindering Low-cal i Approximate'due south Familiar 1 Niambi, Esteemed Speaker 1 Ojutai's Control ane Ordered Migration 1 Overrule 1 Reflector Mage 1 Return Silent 1 Senate Guildmage 1 Skycat Sovereign 1 Spell Queller 1 Sphinx's Insight 1 Staggering Insight 1 Supreme Verdict 1 Sygg, River Guide i Unsettled Mariner ane Wall of Denial 1 Watcher of the Spheres

BOROS (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

1 Akiri, Fearless Voyager 1 Basandra, Battle Seraph ane Boros Challenger i Boros Charm 1 Boros Guildmage 1 Boros Reckoner 1 Deafening Clarion one Foundry Champion 1 Goblin Legionnaire 1 Hero of the Nyxborn ane Heroic Reinforcements i Honored Crop-Helm 1 Integrity/Intervention i Intimidation Bolt i Justice Strike 1 Lightning Helix ane Relentless Raptor 1 Reyav, Master Smith 1 Savai Thundermane 1 Sky Terror i Skyknight Vanguard i Spitemare 1 Thundersong Trumpeter ane Warleader's Helix one Weapons Trainer

DIMIR (25 CARDS)

"Looooooooong live this matter."

IN: Narfi, Betrayer King

OUT: Hibernation Sliver

Nafri, Betrayer King seems like a sweet addition to the stack. I'm always happy to find cards that enable graveyard synergies that don't become likewise oppressive. I'k not sure exactly how a 4/3 that can be returned to play over and over will play out, but I really similar the season and concept of this fauna and thus am willing to give him a attempt.

I typically don't similar to cut inexpensive creatures for v drops, only this was a state of affairs where Hibernation Sliver is conspicuously lacking in power level and thus not a great draw, fifty-fifty in the early phases of the game.

Adding snow typing to all the lands allows Narfi's recursion ability to function in the stack, which makes the card a creature that can exist recurred over and over. I imagine him becoming a chip of a subgame mechanism for grinding out long games.

1 Desperation Warp 1 Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths one Baleful Strix 1 Connive/Concoct 1 Consult the Necrosages one Countersquall 1 Devourer of Memory ane Dimir Guildmage 1 Drown in the Loch 1 Far/Away 1 Hostage Taker 1 Narfi, Betrayer King i Nymris, Oona'southward Trickster one Prized Amalgam 1 Psychatog 1 Shadowmage Burglar one Shipwreck Singer 1 Soul Diviner ane Soul Manipulation 1 Spite/Malice 1 Thought Erasure 1 Tomebound Lich i Undermine i Woodlot Crawler 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

GOLGARI (25 CARDS)

"A wolf who bought in on GME at $10. Woof."

IN: Sarulf, Realm Eater

OUT: Savvy Hunter

I'one thousand a big fan of a 3/3 for three in my Danger Room every bit it's a good rule of thumb for assuasive three drops to trump 1 and two drops with their gainsay stats. With that said, Sarulf simply seems like a much more interesting card than Savvy Hunter in terms of what it can practise and how it impacts a game.

I like that Sarulf also provides a built-in mechanism for dealing with tokens, which is kinda dainty. I've been trying to shave down on the number of Pyroclasm type cards considering they feel very narrow and tailored to specific kinds of boards (and thus won't be useful to a player who doesn't find themselves swarmed past small critters). Sarulf, on the other hand, is a quality sized threat for the cost that tin can arbitrarily provide coverage confronting small swarms while as well pressuring and blocking.

Sarulf is likewise a big, bad Wolf-looking creature which is neat flavor.

1 Abrupt Decay 1 Acolyte of Illness 1 Baloth Nix one Chevill, Blight of Monsters 1 Consume Strength 1 Deathrite Shaman 1 Dreg Mangler one Find/Certitude 1 Gleancrawler ane Golgari Guildmage one Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager ane Grismold, the Dreadsower 1 Korozda Guildmage i Lotleth Troll 1 Maelstrom Pulse one Obelisk Spider ane Pernicious Deed 1 Poisonous substance-Tip Archer 1 Putrefy ane Sarulf, Realm Eater 1 Slimefoot, the Stowaway 1 Condition/Statue 1 Storrev, Devkarin Lich 1 Swarm Guildmage one Winding Constrictor

GRUUL (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

1 Assail/Battery one Bloodbraid Elf 1 Branching Bolt 1 Cindervines ane Collision/Colossus i Dragonlair Spider ane Fanatic of Xenagos 1 Fires of Yavimaya 1 Gallia of the Endless Dance 1 Ghor-Clan Rampager i Ground Set on one Grumgully, the Generous ane Gruul Spellbreaker 1 Guttural Response 1 Huntmaster of the Fells 1 Khenra Charioteer 1 Rhythm of the Wild one Rubblebelt Rioters i Rumbling Slum ane Roughshod Twister 1 Tahngarth, First Mate 1 Thrash/Threat 1 Vexing Shusher 1 Vithian Renegades 1 Zhur-Taa Goblin

IZZET (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

1 Beacon Commodities 1 Brutal Expulsion 1 Counterflux 1 Dack'due south Duplicate 1 Electrolyze 1 Enigma Drake 1 Etherium-Horn Magician i Burn down/Ice 1 Hypothesizzle 1 Ionize 1 Izzet Charm one Jori En, Ruin Diver 1 Lightning Stormkin 1 Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist 1 Mischievous Chimera ane Prophetic Bolt 1 Ral's Flare-up ane Razorfin Hunter one Spellheart Chimera one Sprite Dragon 1 Tempest Fleet Sprinter one Stormchaser Mage 1 Suffocating Blast 1 Swerve 1 Turn/Fire

ORZHOV (25 CARDS)

"Episode III: ROTV."

IN: Binge of the Valkyries

OUT: Restoration Gearsmith

Rampage of the Valkyries is a flavorful bill of fare that as well feels pretty nicely powered for my Battle Box. I'm too a fan of the fact that information technology'due south a fairly unique design: an enchantment with a narrow ongoing ability that brings a four/iv Angel token when deployed. Information technology's kind of cool that some of the changeling themes I've built into the stack can bring additional play and interaction to the enchantment mode of the carte du jour.

On the other hand, I've decided to cut Restoration Gearsmith considering I already have a lot of "Gravedigger" effects and, furthermore, the card doesn't really feel like an Orzhov pattern to me (much more Golgari) whereas ROTV feels extremely Orzhov to me.

i Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim i Batwing Brume 1 Blind Hunter 1 Castigate 1 Consecrate/Consume 1 Corpse Knight 1 Death Grasp 1 Despark 1 Drana'due south Emissary ane General'south Enforcer i Ghost Council of Orzhova 1 Grasping Thrull 1 Grind/Dust 1 Imperious Oligarch i Indulging Patrician 1 Kambal, Consul of Allotment 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council ane Kaya'due south Guile ane Merciless Eviction ane Mortify ane Orzhov Pontiff 1 Rampage of the Valkyries one Sin Collector ane Tymna the Weaver 1 Zealous Persecution

RAKDOS (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

* I went back and along on Innerstrum Predator but I couldn't find a card that I really wanted to cut for it. I remember Blazing Specter, Swift Warkite or Void are all cards that could have been swapped out but I'm a fan of all three cards in the deck and decided to agree off. I generally try to steer clear of cheap oversized monsters that are hard to kill and/or protect themselves from removal.

i Anathemancer one Bituminous Blast 1 Blazing Specter one Blightning ane Claim/Fame 1 Carnival/Carnage 1 Cutting/Ribbons 1 Dreadbore 1 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch i Fireblade Artist i Footlight Fiend 1 Hellhole Rats i Kolaghan'due south Command i Labyrinth Raptor 1 Lightning Skelemental ane Mayhem Devil one Munitions Good 1 Murderous Redcap 1 Olivia, Mobilized for War ane Rakdos Cackler 1 Swift Warden 1 Swift Warkite i Terminate ane Tymaret, the Murder Rex one Unlicensed Disintegration 1 Void

SELESNYA (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

1 Advent of the Wurm 1 Anurid Brushhopper 1 Armadillo Cloak 1 Bronzehide King of beasts i Phone call of the Caucus 1 Brave Escort 1 Dromoka'due south Control 1 Dryad Militant one Elderwood Scion one Enlisted Wurm 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn 1 Huatli's Raptor 1 Ironroot Warlord 1 Kitchen Finks i Knight of Autumn 1 Loxodon Hierarch 1 Loxodon Smiter 1 Mystic Enforcer 1 Qasali Pridemage 1 Renegade Rallier 1 Selesnya Charm one Selesnya Guildmage one Shanna, Sisay'southward Legacy 1 Vocalism of Resurgence ane Watchwolf

SIMIC (25 CARDS)

NO CHANGES

1 Applied Biomancy 1 Bounding Krasis 1 Gaea'southward Skyfolk 1 Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist 1 Horizon Bubble 1 Icefeather Aven one Imoti, Celebrant of the Bounty 1 Jhessian Infiltrator 1 Jungle Barrier 1 Merfolk Skydiver 1 Mystic Genesis ane Mystic Ophidian 1 Plaxcaster Frogling 1 River Hoopoe one Rogue Refiner ane Shapers of Nature 1 Shardless Agent one Sharktocrab 1 Simic Amuse 1 Skyrider Elf 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero ane Trygon Predator 1 Verazol, the Divide Current one Void Grafter i Zameck Guildmage

Monocolor Spells (500 Cards)

At that place's tons of sugariness monocolored cards in Kaldheim!

White (100 Cards)

My issue with Kaldheim isn't finding really cool cards to add to my stack, information technology's finding cards to cut! Keep in mind I only have room for 100 cards per monocolor and there are more than 100 Magic sets now, so adding a bunch of cards does tend to disproportionately represent newer sets in the Danger Room.

With that said, I call up the white cards are going to be outstanding in here and I'm happy to swoop deep to ameliorate expand out white's grindy, aggressive early game.

IN: Battlefield Raptor

OUT: Wing Shards

I love getting one drops into the deck as they let players to nowadays timely force per unit area that keeps games from being as well focused on going large to win. Cool controlling cards are non special in a stack where neither player tin nowadays meaningful criminal offense, so I by and large endeavour to add equally many passable one drops equally possible.

Speaking of passable ane drops…

IN: Conductor of the Fallen

OUT: Imposing Sovereign

Usher of the Fallen is quite squeamish. I beloved i mana two/1s and how they inform early deployment and blocks with two drops. I don't accept an issue with cutting a narrow two drop for a ameliorate one drib.

IN: Beskar Shieldmate

OUT: The Wanderer

A solid and versatile 2 drib. I'm ever happy to bulk up on cheap creatures, as I recall offense needs to be good in order to warrant having things similar Counterspells and carte depict as a pregnant role of the stack.

I tried to brand planeswalkers a thing in hither, but they're but not the type of droids I'm looking for. Happy to move forth.

IN: Clarion Spirit

OUT: Lookout'due south Alarm

Wow, Blaring Spirit is a very interesting two drop. It'due south got fine stats to throw down early on, but it also has a sweet power that adds value over the course of the game if the Spirit is allowed to alive.

I like Watch's Warning as a card, but it has clearly gotten worse in the stack as I've added more cheap creatures and interaction. Paying an actress mana for a timing advantage is a worse charge per unit of exchange than information technology used to be and I've often found this is a card best cycled off just to exist efficient on mana without actually gaining the do good. It's a cool card, just meliorate in a stack that's less aggressive.

IN: Doomskar

OUT: Terminate Hostilities

One of these names is way cooler and it's for that reason an easy switch.

IN: Righteous Valkyrie

OUT: Righteous Cause

Righteous Valkyrie has a nice consistent stat line that will play nicely in my stack. I've at present got a few "Angels matter" cards to go with changlings which is kind of a dainty lilliputian synergy that can thing. Righteous Crusade, on the other hand, is just also deranged. Information technology certainly falls into the camp of being a card that a lot of draws merely cannot compete with and for that reason… I'1000 out.

one Determined Volition 1 Adanto Vanguard 1 Adorned Pouncer i Akroma's Vengeance 1 Alseid of Life's Bounty i Bequeathed Blade ane Angel of Certitude i Apostle of Purifying Light i Austere Command 1 Battlefield Raptor 1 Belfry Spirit 1 Beskir Shieldmate 1 Blade Splicer i Benevolent Approval 1 Cavalry Drillmaster ane Clarion Spirit 1 Cleansing Nova 1 Cloudgoat Ranger i Commonage Try i Council'south Judgment 1 Brave Bodyguard ane Dawn Charm 1 Day of Judgment ane Doomskar 1 Dragon Hunter one Ephemerate 1 Exalted Affections i Faerie Guidemother 1 Felidar Guardian 1 Last Judgment i Flickerwisp 1 Fumigate ane Giant Killer 1 Giver of Runes i Glorious Anthem 1 Glory-Leap Initiate 1 Goldmeadow Harrier 1 Hallowed Burial 1 Healer's Hawk one Healing Grace one Hidden Dragonslayer 1 History of Benalia ane Imperial Aerosaur 1 Isamaru, Hound of Konda 1 Karmic Guide 1 Kirtar's Wrath 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing i Knight of Celebrity 1 Knight of Grace ane Lingering Souls i Livio, Oathsworn Sentinel 1 Lonely Missionary 1 Luminarch Aspirant i Mardu Woe-Reaper 1 Martyr of Dusk one Ministrant of Obligation 1 Mother of Runes i Phyrexian Rebirth 1 Prava of the Steel Legion 1 Reciprocate 1 Remorseful Cleric 1 Restoration Affections ane Righteous Valkyrie i Righteous Confluence 1 Rout 1 Sacred True cat 1 Savannah Lions 1 Seeker of the Way 1 Selfless Squire one Selfless Spirit 1 Settle Beyond Reality 1 Shrieking Grotesque one Silverflame Squire ane Skymarcher Aspirant 1 Snubhorn Sentry 1 Soldier of the Pantheon 1 Soulfire Thousand Master ane Soul's Bellboy ane Spear of Heliod 1 Spectral Lynx 1 Splendor Mare i Stalking Leonin i Standard Bearer i Sunlance 1 Sunscape Battlemage 1 Sunscourge Champion 1 Suture Priest 1 Consume Whole i Swords to Plowshares ane Taranika, Akroan Veteran 1 Temple Acolyte 1 Terminus i Thraben Inspector 1 Trueheart Duelist 1 Conductor of the Fallen one Valorous Stance 1 Venerated Loxodon one Wall of Omens ane War Priest of Thune 1 Wrath of God

BLUE (100 CARDS)

IN: Icebind Colonnade

OUT: Cerulean Drake (second re-create typo)

Icy Manipulator is a classic card that is simply a little too underpowered to exist effective in a more aggressive Boxing Box stack like mine. However, the snow mechanic allows gives access to a newer, cheaper version that I recall will be a little more useful in the stack. I had two copies of Cerulean Drake in the stack equally a typo last time, and so that is the obvious cut here.

1 Ancestral Vision i Angler Drake 1 Archaeomancer 1 Augur of Bolas 1 Azure Mage 1 Blue Elemental Blast 1 Bonded Fetch ane Censor i Cephalid Sage 1 Cerulean Drake 1 Champion of Wits 1 Chart a Course 1 Circular Logic 1 Cloudkin Seer 1 Complicate 1 Concentrate 1 Control Magic 1 Counterspell 1 Delver of Secrets 1 Disallow 1 Dismiss 1 Dispel 1 Dive Downwards 1 Envelop ane Essence Besprinkle 1 Evasive Activity 1 Exclude one Faerie Duelist 1 Fact or Fiction one Flashfreeze 1 Strength Fasten 1 Forceful Denial 1 Horribly Amiss 1 Hydroblast one Hypnotic Siren 1 Hypnotic Sprite 1 Jace's Phantasm 1 Jilt i Jolting Merfolk one Looter il-Kor 1 Lu Xun, Scholar General 1 Mana Leak 1 Homo-o'-War 1 Meddle 1 Merfolk Looter 1 Merfolk Trickster 1 Miscalculation i Mulldrifter i Mystic Archaeologist i Nadir Kraken i Negate 1 Neutralizing Blast 1 Phantasmal Image one Plaxmanta 1 Persuasion 1 Power Sink 1 Preemptive Strike 1 Probe ane Pteramander 1 Queen of Ice 1 Remand 1 Remove Soul ane Repulse 1 Riddlemaster Sphinx 1 Sakashima's Student 1 Sea-Dasher Octopus 1 Secrets of the Aureate City 1 Serendib Efreet i Shacklegeist 1 Siren Stormtamer 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Spectral Sailor 1 Spell Pierce 1 Spell Snare ane Spellstutter Sprite 1 Starlit Mantle 1 Stormscape Amateur 1 Stratus Dancer 1 Summoner's Bane 1 Sun Ce, Young Conquerer one Supreme Will 1 Syncopate one Talrand's Invocation 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive 1 Fugitive Wizard 1 Threads of Disloyalty one Twisted Prototype 1 Twisted Reflection 1 Unstable Mutation 1 Unsubstantiate one Unsummon 1 Vendilion Clique ane Vesuvan Shapeshifter 1 Warkite Marauder one Watcher for Tomorrow 1 Whirler Rogue one Willbender 1 Windrider Magician ane Wonder one Zephid's Embrace

BLACK (100) CARDS

IN: Priest of the Haunted Edge

OUT: Memory Leak

Priest of the Haunted Edge is a pretty cool lilliputian removal creature that benefits from calculation snow typing to the mana base. Not the virtually exciting card in the globe, merely I'grand happy to cut Memory Leak. I accept quite a scrap of targeted discard in my stack and paying iii for that effect isn't something that'southward especially useful. Once again, like Scout's Warning, the card is more frequently inconvenient to bicycle into a new card than it is useful in gameplay.

1 Disturbing Remorse ane Aphemia, the Cacophony i Blight of the Living 1 Bastion of Remembrance 1 Big Game Hunter ane Bloodchief's Thirst 1 Bloodsoaked Champion i Bone Shredder i Butcher Ghoul i Cast Downward 1 Chainer'due south Edict 1 Changeling Outcast 1 Collective Brutality i Dakmor Lancer 1 Damnation 1 Dance of the Dead 1 Dark Banishing 1 Dark Hatchling i Despise 1 Diregraf Ghoul one Amputate i Divest i Doom Blade 1 Doomfall 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir 1 Dread Wanderer one Duress 1 Dusk Legion Zealot 1 Endling 1 Entomber Exarch one Eternal Taskmaster 1 Fatal Push i Flesh Carver i Ghastly Demise i Gnarled Scarhide one Go for the Throat 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury i Gravecrawler i Grimdancer 1 Gutterbones ane Heartless Act 1 Inquisition of Kozilek 1 Keening Banshee 1 Knight of Infamy 1 Knight of Malice 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star 1 Lampad of Decease's Vigil 1 Final Gasp 1 Lay Bare the Heart 1 Lifebane Zombie 1 Liliana'south Specter ane Malefic Scythe 1 Mire Triton i Moment of Craving 1 Murder 1 Murderous Cut 1 Murderous Rider 1 Mythos of Nethroi 1 Nekrataal 1 Never/Return 1 Nighthawk Scavenger 1 Night's Whisper 1 Baneful Gearhulk 1 Oathsworn Vampire 1 Ob Nixilis's Cruelty i Ophiomancer 1 Order of Midnight 1 Orzhov Enforcer 1 Ostracize ane Phyrexian Gargantua 1 Phyrexian Rager ane Priest of the Haunted Border ane Putrid Goblin ane Ravenous Chupacabra 1 Rend Flesh one Ritual of the Machine 1 Serpent Assassin i Shriekmaw one Silumgar Assassin one Skeletal Vampire one Skinrender 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant i Smiting Helix ane Sudden Death 1 Sultai Emissary 1 The Eldest Reborn 1 Thoughtseize ane Tragic Slip ane Transgress the Mind i Trespasser'due south Curse 1 Tymaret, Called from Death ane Ultimate Price 1 Unburial Rites ane Undying Evil 1 Unearth 1 Vampire Nighthawk ane Vampire Sovereign 1 Vendetta 1 Vraska's Antipathy 1 Withered Wretch

Ruddy (100 CARDS)

IN: Arni Brokenbrow

OUT: Slagstorm

Anri Brokenbow puts a big smile on my face because it makes me think of Ari Lax. Back in the RIW days, we all chosen each other silly variations of our names; Ari was Arni, I was Dumar, Stephen Boggemes was Stoyven and Adam Yurchick was Yardstick. With that said, Arni is a very quality three drib 3/3 here. I'grand fine with moving away from "Pyroclasm" sweepers that hitting small creatures because there are so many small creatures in the stack at present and I don't want to punish people for playing what they drew with one sided Wraths!

IN: Frost Bite

OUT: Soul Sear

Cheap removal is great. I beloved the simple flavor of the card. It feels very archetype like Shock, Lightning Commodities, etc.

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*You may also be thinking: "If you put in Frost Bite, why non Skred?"

Great point! I'd like to try out the new snow stuff and see how I experience almost it first before going back through time and overhauling my entire box looking for older snow cards to include. I presume adding snow to the stack volition be well received with Battle Boxers (as it simply adds a new dynamic) simply I'd like to estimate interest and experience points before going "all in." Skred would be at the tip-top of my list of snow cards to add (assuming I continue the mechanic in the box).

Greenish (100 CARDS)

IN: Snakeskin Veil

OUT: Ranger's Guile

Pretty piece of cake upgrade here… Ranger's Guile is a nice trick but not an objectively powerful spell so I don't mind beefing up this card slot.

IN: Masked Vandal

OUT: Lynx

I really similar that the Vandal is a changeling and will play nicely with some of the tribal boosts that have been slowly working their way into my Danger Room. Lynx is a smashing Starter card, but information technology's not especially exciting and I still have Zodiac Rooster!

IN: Blizzard Ball

OUT: Quirion Sentinel

Blizzard Brawl is a wonderful dark-green removal spell that we proceeds access to by adding snowfall typing to lands. I love the Savage Swipe tribute and functionality. Quirion Scout was really a layover from when I expanded the size of the stack and I'm happy to have adequate replacement options to cycle that carte du jour out of the stack.

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On the whole, Kaldheim looks to be a fantastic gear up, non just for Boxing Boxers, but in general. The season is on bespeak, the designs are fun and at that place are a lot of cards that I'm actively looking forward to collecting and casting.

The biggest addition of Kaldheim will likely exist the addition of adding snow typing to my lands in order to inform subsets of cards that synergize with snowfall. I'm not 100 percent sure information technology's worth making a loosey-goosey rule for though… maybe it'due south merely easier to use snow lands and non brand a special rule? I'm not exactly sure what'southward ideal but I'll listen to player feedback and use that to inform how deep into the snowdrift I get in the futurity by calculation backlogged snow cards.

TOP eight BATTLE BOX STAPLES

8. Frost Bite

7. Doomskar

six. Blizzard Brawl

5. Icebind Pillar

4. Narfi, Betrayer Rex

iii. Rampage of the Vakyries

two. Clarion Spirit

1. Usher of the Fallen

I know white has a reputation for weaksauce designs but this was an extremely strong showing for Plains in terms of Battle Box quality designs. Many of my favorite cards, both in terms of flavor and functionality, are white. I'grand as well pretty stoked to take a more appropriately powered Icy Manipulator back in the stack once again.

Well, that's my perspective on Kaldheim and how I plan to incorporate the set into my Battle Box stack. As always, I'm happy to talk over cards that I've included or left on the sidelines and dearest to hear feedback about sleeper cards I may take disregarded and dismissed. The goal is always to brand the best stack possible and so I honey to hear other perspectives about cards that my young man Battle Boxers savor playing with and/or add something special to the mix. Then, by all means feel free to drop me a comment or hit me up on social media (@briandemars1 on Twitter, Briandemars1 on Insta). I'm ever downwards to conversation almost Battle Box and Danger Room and love hearing how my peers are personalizing their own custom stacks.

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