As the name states, this deck is built with cards available in the Freezing Chains Structure Deck, following the next rules:
- The Main Deck must be a 40-card deck, while the Extra Deck can vary
- Can only be built with cards from the selected Structure Deck, with the ratios of said cards is for choosing.
Ice Barrier is a deck that focuses in two things: establishing multiple lockdown-kind effects with their Main Deck monsters, while the Extra Deck monsters have a solid array of removal effects to impact the field. However, before the release of the SD, Ice Barriers lacked field prescence and swarming capabilities that could ease the summon of their Extra Deck monsters or maintain their lockdown effects, since most required another Ice Barrier on the field.
Freezing Chains introduced cards that aid the swarming aspect and a new boss monster and some sort of recycling and protection:
Revealer: Can discard one card to SS an Ice Barrier Tuner from the Deck, but locks on only SS WATER monsters for the turn. If an Ice Barrier monster would require a discard to activate their effects
(ej. Revealer, Brionac or Gungnir), it can banish itself from the GY as one of those cards. Her lockdown effect prevents your opponent to Tribute Summon.
(One of the main playmakers)
Speaker: Can SS from the hand if you control an Ice Barrier monster. Also, if you control an Ice Barrier monster, it can banish from the GY to SS a level 1 token. Her lockdown effect prevents Defense Position monsters to change battle position.
(Free material for summons)
General Wayne: Can SS from the hand if you control an Ice Barrier monster and your opponent controls a monster. Searchs and Ice Barrier S/T on summon. His lockdown effect doesn't require another Ice Barrier monsters and banishes any S/T sent to your opponent's GY while on the field.
(Preffered targets are Medallion or Freezing Chains, their new Spell)
Zuijin: Can SS from the GY by lowering 2 levels from a face-up WATER mosnter on your field, but it banishes if it leaves the field. Can Tribute itself to SS a level 5 or higher Ice Barrier monster from your hand. Doesn't have a lockdown effect.
(Can help as tribute or Synchro fodder)
Hexa Spirit: Can mill a level 3 or lower Ice Barrier monster to copy its level for the rest of the turn. Reduces by 500 the ATK/DEF of your opponent's monsters while another Ice Barrier is on the field.
(Main Tuner and Revealer's preffered target)
Winds over the Ice Barrier: Can tribute any number of Ice Barrier monsters on the field to SS the same number of level 4 or lower Ice Barrier monsters from the Deck. Can banish from the GY to add a Ice Barrier that is banished or in your GY to your hand.
(Deck Summoner and recycler)
Freezing Chains: A Continuous Spell that works as an archetypal World Legacy Guardragon, SS any level 4 or lower Ice Barrier monster from your GY. If you control 3 or more Ice Barrier monsters, all of them are unaffected to your opponent's activated monster effects if they were SS from the Extra Deck.
(GY summoner and effect protection)
Terror of Trishula: A Trap card that can copy OG Trishula's effects depending on the number of Ice Barrier Synchro monsters on your field. While on the GY, can banish itself to negate an effect that target any Ice Barrier Synchro monster.
(Although requires setup, is fairly strong)
Trishula, Zero Dragon: A generic, level 11, three-material Synchro monster that can banish up to 3 cards on your opponent's field, without targeting. If destroyed by any mean, floats into the OG Trishula from the Extra Deck or GY, makes its ATK 3300, negates the effects of all your opponents monsters currently on his field and halves its attack.
(Very powerful boss monster that can punish harder if not removed carefully)
The Side Deck on this list works to show examples of cards that can be used as tech choices, whether they are in the SD or not. Some of them help to add certain lockdown effects depending the matchup or removal (Dai-Sojo, Spellbreaker and Dance Princess), extenders (Deep Sea Diva & Prima Donna, Halqifibrax & Quandax, Coral Anemone, Moray of Greed, Surface and Magellanica) and strong removal or effect negation (Quariongandax, White Aura Whale, Risen Dragite and Fiendish Chain just since can be recycled by Dewloren if not destroyed)