Jester's Caps get no lovin' 
I thought I remembered liking Ice Age, but I'll be damned if I can remember most of what was in it now ... Icy Manip? Although, the whole "snow-covered" mechanic was pretty damn stupid, as I recall.
Misc. note: I have four oversized (8-inch?) MtG cards up on the wall in my office. Aswan Jaguar, Jester's Cap, Shivan Dragon, and Black Lotus. After many years, no one has commented on them
Hey, I've got most of those buried in moving boxes around here somewhere! Except no Lotus/Cap, and
with Chaos Orb and Guay-art Serra Angel.
Ice Age rocked. Orcish Lumberjacks, Jester's Cap, and various other good things were floating around there. Snow-covered stuff would have been better if they'd actually
done stuff with it, but it's one of those things Wizards will never touch again. That's actually one of my main complaints with Wizards: They absolutely love printing new mechanics willy-nilly and then dumping 90% of them without doing anything interesting with them.
"We like to keep things simple when introducing mechanics, and save more complex versions for later sets" combined with "We don't like reusing mechanics, because players will get sick of them" makes for a lot of stuff never getting a fair shake. Then, if a set becomes unpopular, you get "We don't want to remind players of a set they disliked, so you'll never see the mechanics again."
I honestly would like to see stuff get printed that has minor mechanical throwbacks to old sets, just to support interesting deck types. Reuse old sub/supertypes like Arcane, Trap, Shrine, Snow, and Curse, for instance. The subtypes won't mess up the current set, but people playing casual/legacy might enjoy having something new that works in their old decks without resorting to Tribal Matters.
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