
Ice Age common. As the first “stand-alone expansion set”what we would call a big set todayIce Age was the first set to explore the problem of hitting all of the staple cards that people expected to be in a Magic play environment. In addition to straight reprints of iconic instants and sorceries (such as Disenchant and Stone Rain) and “tweaked” reprints of old favorites (such as Norritt, based on Nettling Imp, and Essence Filter, based on Tranquility), Ice Age also made use of “functional reprints” such as Moor Fiend (functionally identical to Bog Wraith) and Fyndhorn Elves (functionally identical to Llanowar Elves).

