Black Ice

|Black Ice Ocean|
|Field|
|When this card is activated destroy all Spell and Trap Cards on your side of the field. While this card is on the field, you cannot activate Trap Cards. You can use your Spell & Trap Card Zones as Monster Card Zones. This card is unaffected by "Black Ice" cards|

(I'd like to add a note to this card that a friend overlooked when he saw it, the final effect of being unaffected by Black Ice cards includes itself so it does not destroy itself when activated.)

|Fragment Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 1|ATK 500|DEF 500|
|When a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" is Special Summoned, Special Summon this monster from your Graveyard. If you Special Summon this card, remove it from play when it is removed from the field.|

|Moon Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 2|ATK 500|DEF 500|
|By discarding this card from your hand to the Graveyard, add 1 "Black Ice Ocean" from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand. If there is no "Black Ice Ocean" on the field, this face-up monster is destroyed.|

|Spear Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 2|ATK 500|DEF 500|
|If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard destroy one Spell or Trap Card on the field, you can then release a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" to add this card to your Hand.|

|Spiral Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 3|ATK 1500|DEF 1500|
|This card cannot be Special Summoned except by its own effect. This card cannot be Normal Summoned. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by realeasing 1 "Pearl Of Black Ice token" on your side of the field. When a "Black Ice" card you control would be removed from the field by an opponent's card effect you can return this card to your Hand instead. If this monster is destroyed as a result of battle, you can pay 500 Life Points to return it to your Hand.|

|Statue Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Effect|Water|3|ATK 500|DEF 2500|
|This card cannot be Special Summoned. When this card is Summoned it is switched to Defense Position. Once per turn you can Special Summon a "Pearl of Black Ice Token" (Fiend-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500). Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards in your Spell & Trap Card Zones during the End Phase.|

|Mirror Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 3|ATK 500|DEF 500|
|You can release this monster to Special Summon a "Black Ice" monster from your Graveyard other than, "Mirror Of Black Ice" ignoring its Summoning Conditions. It cannot deal Battle Damage to your opponent.|

|Wall Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Effect|Water|Level 4|ATK 500|DEF 1000|
|This card cannot be Special Summoned. When this card is Summoned it is switched to Defence Position. This card gains 500 DEF for each "Black Ice" monster you control. When your opponent declares an attack you can change the target of that attack to this monster. When your opponent declares an attack, Special Summon a "Pearl of Black Ice Token" (Fiend-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500). Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Cage Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 4|ATK 500|DEF 1500|
|When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, you can Special Summon 1 Level 5 or lower "Black Ice" monster except "Cage Of Black Ice" from your Deck or Graveyard to your field in face-up Attack Position, ignoring its Summoning Conditions.|

|Wing Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Tuner|Water|Level 5|ATK 2200|DEF 500|
|If this card is removed from the field, remove this card from play and Special Summon a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" (Fiend-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500)|

|Glacier Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Effect|Water|Level 8|ATK 2600|DEF 3000|
|This card cannot be Special Summoned. Once per turn, pay 500 Life Points to Special Summon 1 level 5 or lower "Black Ice" monster from your Hand, Deck or Graveyard ignoring its summoning conditions, that face-up monster's effect is negated. Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Totem Of Black Ice|
|Fiend/Effect|Water|Level 8|ATK 500|DEF 3600|
|This card cannot be Special Summoned. When this card is Summoned it is switched to Defence Position. Two times per turn you can Special Summon a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" (Fiend-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500). Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Black Ice Collective|
|Fiend/Synchro/Effect|Water|Level 4|ATK 1500|DEF 500|
1 Tuner + 1 or more "Pearl Of Black Ice Token". This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can release a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" and this card gains 500 ATK. When this card is removed from the field Special Summon a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" (Fiend-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500) for every 500 ATK it had. Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Black Ice Treasure Chest|
|Fiend/Synchro/Effect|Water|Level 6|ATK 500|ATK 3100|
|1 Tuner + 1 or more non-tuner monsters. This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can discard 1 card from your hand to Special Summon up to 2 "Pearl Of Black Ice Tokens" (Fiend-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500). Pay 500 Life Points for each card Summoned by this effect. You can only use this effect 3 times per turn. Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Black Ice Shark|
|Fiend/Synchro/Effect|Water|Level 6|ATK 2700|DEF 500|
|1 Tuner + 1 or more "Pearl Of Black Ice Token". This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can Release a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" you control. If you do, this card can attack directly this turn. During the End Phase of a turn you used this effect, change this card to Defence Position. During either player's turn you can Release a "Pearl Of Black Ice" to change this card to Attack Position. Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Black Ice Golem|
|Fiend/Synchro/Effect|Water|Level 8|ATK 2100|DEF 1000|
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-tuner monsters. This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can Release a "Pearl of Black Ice Token" to increase the ATK or DEF of this card by 1000. When this card would be removed from the field you can reduce its DEF by 1000 instead. Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Black Ice Dragon|
|Dragon/Synchro/Effect|Water|Level 9|ATK 3500|DEF 3000|
|1 Tuner + 4 "Pearl Of Black Ice Token". This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can release a "Pearl Of Black Ice Token" to destroy a card your opponent controls. Destroy all Spell or Trap Cards you control during the End Phase.|

|Black Ice - Blinding Blizzard|
|Normal Trap|
|Activate only when a "Black Ice" monster you control is selected as an attack target. If you control "Black Ice Ocean", you may activate this card from your hand, ignoring the effect of "Black Ice Ocean". Negate the attack and Special Summon 2 "Pearl of Black Ice Tokens" (WATER/Fiend-type/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500) in Attack Position.|

|Black Ice – Frozen Fortitude|
|Normal Trap|
|If you control "Black Ice Ocean", you may activate this card from your hand, ignoring the effect of "Black Ice Ocean". Tribute 1 "Pearl of Black Ice". "Black Ice” cards cannot be destroyed by card effects this turn.|

Mind giving me a run through of this archetype's playing style? It looks interesting to say the least.

Alright, tried to make a Deck with them, got this:

Spoiler:

They seem very pressed for space. I think you could do a lot of very different builds with them. Anyway, this Deck would generally play out using Statue, Spiral, Cage, Dragon Ice, Blinding Blizzard, and maybe Monster Reborn or Wall to get some field presence/tokens and aim to get out Totem, Glacier or Treasure Chest to spam the field a bit. Against a slower Deck, it would try and Synchro for Black Ice Dragon to gain steady advantage and push for a win, but against a faster Deck it would aim to drop Golem and tribute 2-4 tokens to make him very tough to get around while it builds up some more or if it had a good hand and they over-extended, possibly drop Heiratic to nuke things.

Between Frozen Fortitude and Spiral, the Deck is generally resistent to 'destruction' effects, and all the token spam and the fact 3 monsters activate off-field when destroyed mean Creature Swap is amazing to steal opponent's boss monsters. The fact their back-row is restriced means Effect Veiler and Gorz are a must for surviving stronger pushes from your opponent.

Statue of the Black Ice seems to have too much DEF for a token producer, easily summonable guy.

Make it 2200, perhaps?

Seems to be an interesting undermeta. Very interesting concept to go with, but it could be consideted a slow Deck in a good amount of match-ups.

Rodrigo wrote:Statue of the Black Ice seems to have too much DEF for a token producer, easily summonable guy.

Make it 2200, perhaps?

I get where you're coming from, but it can't be Special Summoned and not many level 4s blow up your entire backrow every turn. Some Decks might be able to 'splash' it, but I can't think of any Deck it would break.

Striker wrote:Seems to be an interesting undermeta. Very interesting concept to go with, but it could be consideted a slow Deck in a good amount of match-ups.

Thanks. I think they might need an extra Spell or Trap, but I'd have to test it before knowing for sure.

The tokens being fully tribute-able could lead to some fun Decks using Plasma or L&DD or even the god cards. Also having 2 level 8s gives them a Trade-In engine as an option. They also aren't tied to the Field Spell, which gives you some more Deck space to play around with if you want to sacrifice it.

Frognarchs.

Yay for easier Obelisks.

Fragment seems a little under-powered, IMO, Since it Banishes itself regardless of how you Special Summon it.
Also I'm tempted to suggest something that's similar to Statue of the Wicked, since it would combo nicely with the Synchro Monsters.
(Except it would be a Spell card, of course)

Rodrigo wrote:Frognarchs.

Yay for easier Obelisks.

Haven't played recent Frognarchs, does it really not hurt them much to lose their backrow?

Edit:

Armz wrote:
Fragment seems a little under-powered, IMO, Since it Banishes itself regardless of how you Special Summon it.
Also I'm tempted to suggest something that's similar to Statue of the Wicked, since it would combo nicely with the Synchro Monsters.
(Except it would be a Spell card, of course)

Totally agree with the Fragment thing, I was considering removing it from that Decklist but I wanted to include every card. Maybe it should Summon a Pearl whenever you Special Summon it? Or only RFG itself when Summoned by its own effect? Or both? Also, yeah, these guys could totally run Statue (their field prevents you activating Trap Cards, not activating their effects.) That new D.D. Rift WATER support card is an option too.

EDIT2: Dark Coffin works too.

Forgnarchs do NOT run backrow ._.
They have Treeborn, they can't even have backrow.

Rodrigo wrote:Forgnarchs do NOT run backrow ._.
They have Treeborn, they can't even have backrow.

This is true. Thought they might still splash some stuff like Call, Mirror, Torrent.

Anyway, I haven't heard anyone complaining about them being meta, and Statue's still a bit slow. I definitely see where you're coming from though - I'd want to see Frognarchs run with it and see if they can fit it in easily. You could very possibly be right that it's too strong there. Then again, Treeborn might be a bigger problem card, but I can't go around banning Konami's silly things .-.

Fair enough.

Frognarchs do not run any backrow, in fact. They used to tech Treacherous Trap Hole, but they don't even do that anymore. They rely on Monarchs, LaDD and sometimes Obelisk to win. Statue of Black Ice would be a very fair tech on the deck. It wouldn't break it, but... I'd think twice about designing it as-is.

Alright, thanks for the heads-up. I'm happy for Statue to get teched into various other Decks like people do with Treeborn and other splash-monsters, as long as it doesn't outright break anything.