Thawing Glaciers

Land

Thawing Glaciers enters the battlefield tapped.

{1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Return Thawing Glaciers to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

capwner on Low cost cards to help …

1 month ago

^ Yavi is one of my favs. In addition to what others have said I'd also rec Thawing Glaciers which is probably my fav land of all time if I had to pick one. It's especially nice if you run Rings of Brighthearth for copying fetches and/or with any land untappers. Blossoming Tortoise and Shigeki, Jukai Visionary are solid options though more ramp than landfixing. Not a perm but Life from the Loam is great. I also like Realms Uncharted for finding tech lands, you can get any two lands along with Echoing Deeps and Petrified Field. Gl with your build!

capwner on Teferi, Mage of Zero Turns

2 months ago

Sweet U-prison build, IMO building around some jank like Meditate is the only way to make the color actually exciting and fun instead of just play Rhystic draw counterspells and combo. Love the idea of skipping your own turn to dodge Smokestack-style effects. FYI you are missing just 1 card of the infinite Magosi turns combo (you have Magosi and Deserted Temple, only need Rings of Brighthearth which also works on its own as some of the better mono blue ramp--combined with fetches and some other choice lands like Thawing Glaciers + Myriad Landscape.

Hexapod on Standing Stones | Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

1 year ago

Thank you Craeter for your comment!

I wish Verity Circle was worded differently, but unfortunately as you guessed it would do nothing here.

One of my goals is to make this deck casual and fun, so I ruled out Opposition as a heinous card. Archelos can be salty enough by himself; I will tap him for mana through cards like Citanul Hierophants or Cryptolith Rite at the end of my turn.

I aim to get value out of my lands coming into play untapped, and exploiting things like Thawing Glaciers to get triggers and ramp. I have various possible wincons, one of them being to turn lands into creatures and attack, although I think I need to make room for Earth Surge for this to be a viable option.

I can also win with mill using Phenax, God of Deception. This works fast with Murkfiend Liege on the board.

Then there are the obvious ones, Rampaging Baloths and Avenger of Zendikar

Conduit of Worlds is a good idea, I am not sure I was aware of that card, thank you. I don't think Druid Class and Lifegift make the cut.

Glad you liked the story!

SufferFromEDHD on Lost Among the Stars in Search of the Moon

1 year ago

Definitely a serious possibility. Is Thawing Glaciers better in this strategy?

DreadKhan on Band of Kjeldor

2 years ago

I like decks based around a block, so I kept my suggestions to stuff from Ice Age block (minus Homelands which has nothing to do with Ice Age).

Why no Swords to Plowshares? When I playtested this vs my Oldschool deck (which uses Fallen Empires very heavily) your deck felt like it wanted Swords to kill off my fatties in such a way that it can't be reanimated, there is also Exile I guess if Swords is too pricey? More flying might work well too if you have lots of Banding creatures with First Strike out, maybe x1 or x2 Skycaptain? Maybe a couple Wild Aesthirs? I think you could get away with a couple Order of the White Shield in here, you have tons of creatures with Banding already, they can protect your pump knight very well.

If you ever develop the budget for it Kjeldoran Outpost is a nifty old card, there arguably isn't a better version of it even today, and it used to see plenty of play. Thawing Glaciers is another old card that could let you shave a few lands if you can fit x4 of it in somehow, if you can get a Glacier out you'll never be short of lands. Since you run so many creatures, maybe Inheritance?

For your sideboard have you thought about Order of the Sacred Torch? There is also Energy Storm to deal with flying heavy decks. Royal Decree is pretty nasty vs Red or Black decks.

MrHuffle on KonoSuba: Crimson Magic of Explosion (Omnath)

3 years ago

I personally really like sticking to a theme or gimmick even if it means sacrificing the decks quality just because I have more fun with it. If I wanted to make this deck more competitive a Sol Ring would definitely make the cut tho.

Valakut Exploration looks very fun for this deck!

Wilt can probably go out for a Nature's Claim, I'm pretty sure I've got one lying around

Stone-Seeder Hierophant was mostly a backup Amulet of Vigor to combo with Perilous Forays but hasn't ever really been used so probably will be cycled out in the next wave of deck updates I do.

Thawing Glaciers Funnily enough would pair pretty well with Stone-Seeder Hierophant but it probably won't make the cut

Thanks again for the ideas Profet93! Draw well :)

FormOverFunction on Your Favorite Plays

4 years ago

Well before Kaldheim there was a guy who had a sweet Thawing Glaciers and Extraplanar Lens deck that was fitted with all snow-covered islands (so no one else benefited from the lens) and my natural disaster deck hit the Cold Snap. That’s the only time the card has ever been relevant, probably for anyone, in my lifetime.

PlupFan on Omnath, Very Upset Locus (2021)

4 years ago

rwn1971 Yeah, for my meta, Thawing Glaciers is just too slow. It does synergize well with Landfall, but the fact that it enters tapped really sucks. You'd have to have multiple land drops to even have this ramp you, and even then it's too slow. For me personally, unless I'm on a budget, tapped lands need to have a really nice upside.

By the way, I've been trying out Purphoros, God of the Forge and it has been super great.