The goal of the deck is to scry a bunch to fuel our various scry payoffs, most notably our commander, to rocket ahead in card and mana advantage and bury our opponents in value
The flipside, an enchantment saga aptly titled The Great Work, deals damage to each opponent and their creatures, creates some Treasure tokens, and has the chance to cast a bunch of spells out of your graveyard
But I think the best blue snow creature has to be Icebreaker Kraken
Creatures (1) Planeswalkers (3) Lands (16) Spells (40) 2 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Brainstorm 3 Mana Drain 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Force of Will 1 Mana Vault 1 Sol Ring 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Imperial Seal 1 Mana Crypt 1 Time Vault 1 Gifts Ungiven 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Tinker 2 Voltaic Key 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 2 Ancient Grudge 1 Ponder 1 Deglamer 4 Preordain Sideboard Not every Vintage deck is always in the market for so many one-cost cantrips, but those that are, generally want Preordain
When combined with powerful enter-the-battlefield and death effects, sometimes on the same creature, Birthing Pod decks were a value engine of titanic proportions