Where it’s snowing
All winter through
That’s where I want to be
Snowball throwing
That’s what I’ll do
How I’m longing to ski
Through the snow-oh-oh-oh-oh
—“Snow!!!” from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Snow is a pervasive theme in this Jumpstart cube, and this mono-red pack takes advantage of that. In the spirit of extreme winter sports, this selection of snow and goblin cards wants to turn sideways on as much powder as possible.
Advent 5: Snow!!!
| Creatures (7) 1 Goblin Furrier 1 Goblin Rimerunner 1 Goblin Ski Patrol 1 Goblin Snowman 1 Ohran Yeti 1 Stalking Yeti 1 Rimescale Dragon Artifacts (1) 1 Coldsteel Heart Spells (4) 1 Goblin Oriflamme 1 Goblinslide 1 Hordeling Outburst 1 Skred | Lands (8) 8 Snow-Covered Mountain |
This pack’s strategy is simply to amass a critical mass of snow permanents and goblins, using Stalking Yeti to pick off small creatures, and Rimescale Dragon and a massive Skred to either lock down or remove anything too large for the Yeti to handle. With blockers out of the way, the army of goblins are free to snowboard down your mountains to Winter Olympics gold!
Honorable Mention
A phenomenally flavorful card that just doesn’t work over webcam:
Jacob Torbeck is a researcher and instructor of theology and ethics. He hails from Chicago, IL, and loves playing Commander and pre-modern cubes.