Iceman - Leading Snow

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D.M.Tip · 2410

"A little too cold for ya, huh?"

Hey all! Here's a Protection Iceman deck that I've been enjoying lately. It focuses on boosting your ATK to take advantage of Leading Blow to get even more Freeze! triggers on the villain. So, let's slide into the specifics...

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Leading Snow is Cool!

As mentioned above, the core concept of this deck revolves around Leading Blow, a card which allows you to ready reliably and cheaply if your ATK is high enough. Each time you ready, you can trigger Freeze! again which puts Frostbite on the target. The more you can Freeze! the villain, the better you can control the situation and protect yourself and your teammates. So how can we do boost our ATK in Protection to take advantage of Leading Blow without Repurpose?

The answer is to combine several cards available to us.

  • Ice Slide + Soaring Acrobatics + Synch + Cell Phone lets us get our ATK up to 6 for a single attack, which guarantees a successful Leading Blow and ready. It may sound like a lot of hoops to go through, and you're right. It is, but it's also super cool to pull off once you are set up. You also have some wiggle room to use it before all of these pieces are in play.

  • Prioritize Synch and Ice Slide, but be ready to protect yourself once you start sliding because you'll want to stay in Hero form for the rest of the game if you can.

  • Once you can get up to at least 4 ATK, you can almost always depend on Leading Blow to get you a ready, which will net you an extra Freeze! and sustain your reign of frozen awesomeness.

Other Deck Tech and Interactions

  • What Doesn't Kill Me is great at helping you Freeze! more while also keeping you healthy.

  • 9x X-Men allies along with Utopia grant you more reliable access to Freeze! and keep you from taking damage when you can throw them in front of villain attacks.

  • Nightcrawler with the X-Jet also give you an indefinite and reliable ready if you need it against villains that have overkill or scenarios that punish allies getting defeated. And in longer multiplayer games, this opens up the door to use your other allies to block for teammates and NC can keep yourself safe.

  • Do not give the cold shoulder to the THW potential of this deck. You've got 3x copies of Chill Out! and once you are set up with Ice Slide, Synch, and Soaring Acrobatics, you have some incredible flexibility to deal with threat as needed.

Let me know if you think this deck is cool, how you might tweak it for your play style, or if you give it a try!

Peace.

14 comments

Feb 22, 2025 Castlefrank47 · 3724

Love the combo with leading blow and his freeze ability. Good stuff!

Feb 22, 2025 D.M.Tip · 2410

@Castlefrank47 Thank you! There are so many fun ways to play Iceman but I really enjoy the ones where I can Freeze! more often.

Feb 22, 2025 Castlefrank47 · 3724

For sure, I typically run him in perfect defense style and if I don't hit the ready from cryo use Indomitable to guarantee the ready for hero phase. I like this one tho focusing on attacks

Feb 23, 2025 JacenSketch · 220

Such a sick build! I'd recommend Desperate Defense to keep your readies moving in the villain phase too.

Feb 23, 2025 D.M.Tip · 2410

@Castlefrank47 Yeah, Freeze! Is so good with perfect defense. Totally different style and flow, but works when you build around it.

@JacenSketch Thank you for the kind words! Desperate Defense is a solid ready that can work well with the boosts from Synch and Soaring Acrobatics, but I really wanted to focus on offense for this one. Without building around defense and playing cards in the villain phase, I'd be spinning my wheels a bit and making less forward progress on finishing the game. It's definitely a viable build with Iceman, but I think I'd want to change the strategy and go with defense vs offense for it to work better, similar to Castlefrank47's deck.

Feb 23, 2025 JacenSketch · 220

@D.M.Tip that makes perfect sense. Being on the offense like that keeps the Frostbite train moving. Very smart, my man.

Feb 23, 2025 VJakson · 958

Cooool Idea!

Feb 23, 2025 D.M.Tip · 2410

@VJakson lol, thank you!

Feb 23, 2025 EarthTwister · 110

I'm loving seeing Ice Man Decks that work well! I've really only gotten him to play in Justice well (and leadership.... X-Men) but this seems like such a fun build!!

Feb 23, 2025 D.M.Tip · 2410

@EarthTwister Iceman is pretty versatile with aspects I think because of the large card pool. Definitely worth checking out in Protection! I haven't had much luck with him in Justice though, like you have. I wish his Freeze! also worked on basic thwarting, but maybe that wasn't thematic enough or too powerful in testing.

Feb 27, 2025 dr00 · 50416

love the idea of just buffing the hell out of your hero's stats for Leading Blow lol. Cell Phone is so underrated, and Synch is such a great addition to that. it's 'for one attack' but when you get so many more, even a thwart, and frostbite the hell out of the villain, feels so good

Feb 27, 2025 D.M.Tip · 2410

@dr00 Yeah, I'm really enjoying Cell Phone and squeezing every little bit out of a single attack. The flexibility to THW effectively has come in handy in several games so far. I was surprised how much fun I was having just trying to get all the Freeze! I could muster.

Mar 08, 2025 Lennalf · 246

Thanks for sharing this deck! We played it last night and it was an absolute blast. In the future I would probably add Superpower Training to help find Cryokinetic Perception, Ice Slide, and Power Belt (in that order of priority).

Mar 08, 2025 D.M.Tip · 2410

@Lennalf My pleasure! That's great to hear! Great feedback about Superpower Training. It'll help smooth things out quite a bit.