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In Magic: The Gathering, some mechanics can be rather unpopular and still wind up coming back.

Some cards have a lot of confusing text. Here's one of the most infamous examples.

Magic Untapped takes a look back at Coldsnap, the long-awaited final set in Magic: The Gathering's Ice Age block.

In 1995, the Ice Age card Chub Toad saw print. It was an in-joke and ended up with a sequel 26 years later.

In the mid-1990s, playing Magic: The Gathering was a bit of a gamble (literally).

In the early days of Magic: The Gathering, there was a curious running gag that kept popping in each year before finally becoming a reality years later.

Magic: The Gathering's white mana symbol didn't always look like it does today.

In 1995, Ice Age designers expected a scary ghost.  They got something a bit more cuddly instead.

Magic Untapped takes a few minutes to look back at Ice Age, the first Magic: The Gathering set to try something drastically new and different.