madcat

Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you to OoC for the giveaway, the virtual snowballs, and providing a place for this wonderful community to gather!

Oh, I think my hint was for the week 1 Yu-Gi-Oh riddles. But I didn't (and don't) know how to do the search to find 3000 LP cards for week 2, so for me that was brute-force as well. Only …

For MTG:

[spoiler]There is a MTG holiday cards article on OOC just now. Check it out and see if any cards have words that are in the clue.[/spoiler]

For Yu-Gi-Oh:

[spoiler]Ugh. Nothing to suggest other than brute-force …

For ice cream:

[spoiler]Think of a portable way ice cream is served, and other attributes of ice cream/winter[/spoiler]

For Snap:

[spoiler]Think of the clue, but with regards to a card in another popular card game here. And …

Well, think of a character in the Marvelverse that shares the name with a card in another popular game here relevant to the clue. And forget any connection to snow or holidays (at least that I can think of). Hope …

In a Clue-related PSA, the blank icon between Runeterra and MTG is evidently Marvel Snap (only stumbled on that by accidently finding the answer).

Alchemy's first ban, and it's an uncommon. What a shocker! It is almost as if they realized that they wouldn't be giving anyone any useful wildcards anyways, so why not ban?

Yeah, and wassup with that useless [card]Reno Jackson[/card]? That wastoid doesn't even change your starting health. Why would anyone want *that* in your deck?

They are working for now, and until May 5 there is a code "PATCHUP" for 4k XP for compensation

Oh, no! There are three ties now. How did that happen?

At this moment, two ties. I have some spare snowballs, so maybe the ties can be broken... or not.

Hit by... 305 Snowballs(!) Avalanche indeed! Thanks!

[spoiler]...or what might be said after a really good put-down. Oh...

(I wonder if people still say this or if I am dating myself)[/spoiler]

[spoiler]You want to be looking for phrases associated with sudden drops in temperature. Obviously this is harder for those for whom English is not their first language. So think about words associated with things happening quickly, or suddenly.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Over half of the Magic answers are from the Kaldheim expansion[/spoiler]

And now back to the weather where we have reports of ice, fire, and ice on fire.

[spoiler]The fire and ice stuff doesn't matter, it's about who reports the weather.[/spoiler]

If the temperature just dropped drastically for seemingly …

I just solved it, and boy was it annoying

[spoiler]Many of the cards are from the same expansion, like this one is. An interesting winter-themed keyword is snow, just so you know. And to get to 56 mana, well …

You did a lot better than I did with a similar approach. I did blunder into the solution to one of them though:

Three spirits stand next to Zed. This one symbolizes his memory.

[spoiler]Dunno where they …

[spoiler]I haven't found them all, but I can say that at least half of them are Kaldheim cards, which should reduce the search space for some of them. I will note that Kaldheim had a strong troll theme. The others …

[spoiler]"Hat's off to him..." so think minion rather than spell.[/spoiler]