One more day!! Now some of you may be lucky and there stores are getting them an early present, so lucky you. So to pass the time lets get another review of another really unique and powerful dragon.

Issyl of the Frozen Wastes
Cost 8
Creature
Tsunami Dragon
Water
Power 11000

Double Breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Arctic Winds — While this creature is tapped, enemy creatures don't untap at the start of your opponent's turn.
Sweet. Our first true Lock Down type card. DM has a few cards simliar to this, such as the old Alcadeus evolution that locked down spells. Some might feel like this card doesn't resemble the Water Civilization, but it eally embodies that "freeze" element of water. So where does this thing belong? Well until we get some more support for an effect like this I think its going to get the Lepidos treatment. It will generally be ignored but people are going to make this try and work.

Summary:
So 8 for 11000 power is crazy. That is a rediculous power for its level and its got a unique effect to boot. This is a card you build your deck around. With the right combination of cards this could be extremly deadly. I cannnot wait to see what people do with this card. I am going to try something! Obviously to use its effect properly you need to use tap so naturally this fits with light cards!

Constructed: 4/5
Limited 4/5

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We’re coming close to the official release date of DragonStrike Infernus and already some of you have managed to find packs at your local Target stores several days early! I’ll be checking the store again to see if anything has changed because this set is just too good not to get your hands on and today’s card is no exception! Let’s take a look at the strongest water creature out there as of now: Issyl of the Frozen Wastes.

Name: Issyl of the Frozen Wastes
Civilization: Water
Type: Creature
Race: Tsunami Dragon
Level: 8
Power: 11000
Flavor Text: Issyl remembers the first ice age and plans to unleash the next one.
Rarity: Super Rare
Set Number:   S2/S5 l 6DSI

Abilities:
Double Breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Arctic Winds- While this creature is tapped, enemy creatures don’t untap at the start of your opponent’s turn.

Issyl has something that a lot of Water Civilization players have been lacking, raw power! With a staggering 11000 power, this dragon is able to take down most other creatures in this game outside of a few other dragons. Wizards of the Coast even gave us a balance for taking away that extra 1000 power and Triple Breaker by decreasing his Level by one. If you’re already using Nix or the other Firebird creatures, then you can even get Issyl out by turn five or six!

Where Issyl really takes flight is when it’s tapped. When Issyl attacks and it happens to survive, during your opponents next turn, they will be unable to untap their creatures! This is extremely restricting for your opponent. Even if you do happen to have an answer to Issyl, your creatures won’t be untapping until your next turn! That means that your opponent will be able to attack any one of them or get free reign at your shields. Even if you attack with Issyl again at one of their tapped creatures or if it gets blocked, you just set yourself up again for another turn of being locked down!

This card is a control players dream and in some decks can even become a reality with Bottle of Wishes which we reviewed on Tuesday. This card will see some play in Water/Light builds so that they can protect him with cards like Lux and benefit off of Nix.

Probably the biggest weakness that this card has is Terror Pit, Root Trap, in some cases Death Smoke, and other decks that run huge creatures like Flamespike Tatsurion or the other DSI Super Rare Dragons. This is not a card you want to see hit the battle zone and stay there if you’re opposing its Arctic Winds; you may want to bundle up ‘cause you might be left sitting out in the cold for a while.

Ratings:

Constructed: 4.25/5.00 (This card is unbelievable as long as your opponent doesn’t already have access to a 12000+ power dragon already and if you can get one attack in to get it into its tapped position.)

Limited: 4.00/5.00 (Limitedly speaking, if this gets tapped it may shut your opponent down, however, they likely have firebirds in the battle zone that they don’t want to attack with, so not everything will always be tapped. There is removal in this set, so Issyl isn’t going to necessarily be around forever, however, 11000 power for 8 mana? Yes please!)

Make sure to stop by tomorrow when we wrap up our preview week of DragonStrike Infernus with one of the most ridiculously powerful effects printed on a card in this set! Until then, remember to keep calm and game on!