The Blastforge package of cards provides some key tools for the Frost Tempo archetype, with one of the most important being Keltor's Explosive Kit. Explosive Kit allows you to tutor any Blastforge card, gluing the list together and allowing access to both early game setup tools, interactive pieces, and parts of your combo kill.

On the early game front, Stoga-Frost, Blastforge Flame Keeper is the best way to start out the game, with her Wisdom ability helping to dig through your deck to find needed pieces. Her Perish ability is additionally an incredibly strong one, tutoring out Kindle-Haust, Blastforge Fire-Sparker, from either deck or discard. With Gust, Shockwave, and both keywords again on Perish, Kindle-Haust is one of your best ways to both break up a board of warriors, and to bounce your own warriors back to hand for additional value. 

As previously mentioned, one of the strongest aspects of Frost Tempo is it's near combo-kill potential. Blastforge Melt-Cannon is an armament providing 6 ATK to an equipped Blastforge Warrior, and in combination with bounce effects to return your Warriors and Melt-Cannons back to hand you can re-equip and keep attacking your opponent for a massive swing of damage to end a game when the opportunity presents itself. Diary Of A Blastforge Survivor is your other key component of this combo kill, allowing you to conscript additional Blastforge Warriors to keep putting Warriors in play to hold some cannons.

The Blastforge package also provides you with easy access to Storala, The Blastforge Apprentice, a retrive warrior that helps to enable your combo loops, and provides immense general value. Blastforge Melt-Hammer is another strong controlling armament, with an even stronger in discard ability.

The Frozen archetype provides you with your control pieces that help you to survive the early game, whilst also letting you access key combo-kill tools.

Welcoming Of Wintertide is a great way to recover DCM, take control of the board, and stack your upcoming draws. With various cards in your deck that can mill cards on activation, wisdom abilities, and cards that either care about being in discard or care about being milled, makes stacking your top 5 incredibly impactful. Altogether this makes Welcoming Of Wintertide a card with an incredibly high skill ceiling with sequencing your draw, wisdom, and mill effects to take best advantage of the top 5

Windenmere Island is one of the best value tools in the deck, and a useful card for enabling your combo kills. On activation you can revive any Dwarf Warrior, recurring Wisdom or Retrieve triggers for massive amounts of value. The ability to destroy one of your Warriors also helps to push more damage in through 3 damage wolves, and can trigger important Perish abilities when you need them. With the overabundance of bounce effects available to Dwarves, Windenmere Island can easily be replayed over and over to continue to revive warriors.

Frozen Adventurer, Freezalina is another great tool in the archetype. At a glance, Freezalina can feel incredibly unexciting, especially without other Frozen Adventures to get value out of her Perish ability, but with her Swift and Frostbite abilities she's one of your best midrange tools, and can be your only way out in a pinch. Whether you're staring down an attack from a buffed up Titan Warrior barreling in for Lethal, or trying to find the last few bits of damage to end the game, Freezalina's swift ability comes in handy surprisingly frequently.

Additionally, being a Dwarf Warrior with Frostbite, Freezalina soaks up the passive Bestow buffs from both Windenmere Island, and Frostfall Fortress, potentially making her a 5 ATK warrior that tramples over anything smaller than 10 ATK.

Your opening hand will heavily depend on matchup, and play/draw but there are a few key things to look for in your opener.

• Stoga-Frost, The Blastforge Flame Keeper / Keltor's Explosive Kit

  • • The most important thing to look for in your first 6 is either Stoga-Frost, The Blastforge Flame Keeper or Keltor's Explosive Kit to search for Stoga-Frost. With her Wisdom ability to start filtering through cards and her Perish ability tutoring for Kindle-Haust to start controlling the board and disrupting your opponent, Stoga-Frost is a fantastic Warrior, and the best card you can play to start off the game.

    • Having both Stoga-Frost and Keltor's is ideal, but if you have at least 1 of these cards in your opener, you likely won't need to take a full mulligan before your Serenasada mulligan.

• Windenmere Island

  • • Windenmere Island is a powerful tool whether you're controlling the game and generating card advantage, or comboing off for the kill. Whilst Keltor's can gain you access to any of the Blastforge cards, Windenmere can be more difficult to find and gaining access to it as soon as possible is always useful.

• Welcoming Of Wintertide

  • • Similar to Windenmere Island, Welcoming Of Wintertide cannot be easily tutored and is a great way to pad out your DCM, control the board, and stack your deck to setup mill effects and draws. Having a Welcoming can be key in many match ups for setting up future turns.

Past these powerful tools that you'll want to have early access to as frequently as possible, there are a plethora of options for the rest of your mulligan decisions when it comes to matchups, play/draw, and even certain hands. In a matchup that would normally place you as the aggressor (i.e. against Michael control), if your opening hand is full of value oriented backline pieces, it may be more advantageous to play a slow grindy game focused on outvaluing your opponent and fighting for card advantage to drown out your opponent's interaction for an easy combo-kill.

• Control tools vs Combo tools

  • • Being a tempo deck, one of the most important things to consider is whether you should lean more heavily into your control tools, or your combo tools in any given match ups, and Serenasada gives you the ability to shift your hand to better suit the playstyle you may need. Erring on the side of cautious and focusing on your more defensive tools can be safer and easier to fall back on, but depending on your opening hand you may be able to make a quick aggressive push.

• Control tools

  • • Shattered On The Frozen Anvil

      • Especially relevant against heavy Warrior based decks such as Angels

    • Beckon The Mistral Winds

    • Never Shake The Cold

• Combo tools

  • • Blastforge Melt-Cannon

    • Diary Of A Blastforge Survivor

    • Nisty's Warcleaver

      • Key when facing a potentially stacked up backline or pushing in a kill

The power of Frost Tempo truly comes in it's abilities to switch from a controlling gameplan to a lightning fast kill at the turn of a dime. This kill isn't a true "combo" with explicit pieces and lines, but rather a variety of synergy pieces from which you can find a kill.

One of your most important pieces for the combo is Blastforge Melt-Cannon. The +6 ATK buff lets your Warriors hit significantly harder, and with 3 Cannons, your Warriors can hit for upwards of 19 damage. With bounce cards and Cannons, only 4 hits can easily kill any Warlord.

Even more important than your Cannons however is Diary Of A Blastforge Survivor. This card is the true core to the combo, letting you flood the board with Warriors over the course of a turn. Diary lets you discard a Blastforge card to revive a Blastforge Warrior, and save a conscription of an additional Blastforge Warrior for the rest of the turn. This ability has some key uses, as well as some caveats.

• The first ability has some key factors to take note of. For one, you can discard a Blastforge Warrior to the cost of the card, and then revive it immediately, effectively letting you conscript two warriors from your hand. Importantly however, you CANNOT activate Diary unless you already have a legal target to Revive in your discard pile. It can be important to keep track of your discard to ensure that you have a warrior available in discard for when you're trying to combo off.

• The discard is mostly used to conscript a warrior from hand with extra steps, but can also discard a few cards with useful in-discard abilities, such as Explosive Kit, Melt-Hammer, or even a Melt-Cannon. Melt-Cannon's in-discard ability to destroy any card can be used for an array of incredibly useful functions, whether clearing the way of Fortified Cards, Warriors, or hate pieces, destroying a Kindle-Haust to activate his perish ability, or destroying a Windenmere Island to retrieve, or to play another from hand.

• One other oddity of the card is that the Warrior is "conscripted" from discard, and not revived. This lets it get around certain cards that prevent revival like Forbidden Fjords.

Your Warriors also play a crucial part for the combo-kill apart from just holding onto Cannons, with each of the 3 Blastforge warriors having specific uses

• Storala lets you retrieve Explosive-kits early in the turn to gain access to any missing combo pieces, or Diary for additional conscripts, or any other bounce or utility card to keep the combo going.

• Stoga-Frost lets you churn through your deck to find any missing combo-pieces, or generate general value, and her Perish ability lets you bring out Kindle-Haust from discard

• Kindle-Haust himself is a useful part of the combo due to his Gust and Shockwave abilities. Gust is one of your best ways to bounce back whichever warriors are carrying Cannons, whilst Shockwave can clear your board of Wolves or other warriors that have already attacked.

Past these crucial pieces there a huge number of cards which aid in finding a kill.

• Keltor's Explosive Kit is obviously key for setting your combo up, but it's in-discard effect is great during your combo turn, being able to retrieve a Cannon or Diary from your discard whilst clearing the way of fortified cards or sacrificing your own Warriors for Perish abilities or board space

• Escape From Explosion Mountain is an incredibly flexible piece, bouncing back any card, usually a Warrior or a Windenmere Island. If you have an Explosive Kit in Eradication as well, Escape lets you grab another copy from your library.

• Ancient Frozen Frontier is another great bounce card, which enables what is the closest true combo in the deck. Although it can't bounce Unified or Fortified cards, bringing back two warriors to immediately re-conscript with Diary is incredibly strong. Additionally, this can help with dealing a bit of extra damage with Freezalina.

• Windenmere Island is fantastic, being able to revive a Warrior from your discard on play, and destroying your warriors to make 3 ATK wolves. This can also be incredibly useful for pushing in damage when not going for a combo kill.