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2006

It turns out that there are more stories coming out of WotC's move across the street than just a giant Dragon stopping traffic. While I was helping to pack up R&D, I emptied out a filing cabinet in Richard Garfield's old office (now an R&D conference room known as "The Danger Room"). It looked as if the cabinet had been moved intact from Wizards' last move ten years ago. Inside I found a bunch of old folders. The bottom of which was cryptically titled "Rock & Roll". Curious, I blew the dust off the file and peeked inside. I had no idea what I was about to uncover.

I've worked in R&D for over five years, so I had heard the rumor. Rosewater's been spouting off about it for years, but like many things he says no one believed him. But as I began to read through the file I started seeing words like "Kjeldoran" and "Wiitigo", I realized that I might have just uncovered one of the great unsolved mysteries of R&D. Yes, in my hand was the lost Ice Age expansion!

For those of you unfamiliar, here's how the legend goes. Ice Age was designed to be the first of the modern day blocks complete with one large set and two small expansions. But due to internal politics, Homelands was forced upon R&D to be included in the block. This forced R&D to shelve the third set of the block as there wasn't going to be room for it before Mirage was released. According to the legend, the design was filed away never to be seen again. And rumor had it, it was the best set of the block.

Paging through it, I realized that legend might have been correct. The third set did some very interesting things with the themes found in Ice Age and Alliances. It seemed a shame that the world would never see it. The set deserved a better fate than being abandoned for eternity in a file cabinet. It only took one Tuesday Magic meeting to set things right. We decided that it wasn't too late to correct history. We should give the long-lost Ice Age set its day in the sun (and banish Homelands to the block-less limbo it so richly deserves). I am quite proud to announce that the lost Ice Age set, named Coldsnap, will be released on July 21st. I think you guys are going to have a lot of fun playing with it.

The set is now well into its development cycle so we're not only ready to announce that we're printing it, but I've also been authorized to answer some of the questions that we know will come up.
- Randy Buehler

Cold Snap features 65 black-bordered cards, available in standard and premium versions.

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