User blog comment:GAK16/I'm back for more theory!/@comment-37008841-20181011011145/@comment-31817574-20181011224857

Yes, now, but originally there were four elements in the game - that didn't include Astral, Ice, Shadow, or Mech - only Fire, water, Earth, and Storm (called "Air" originally), like the four regular worldly elements. Then they added the extra four to make it look like some great big game with many elements, with Mech when Big Hex was just named "Hex," Ice with the release of Shiverchill Mountains, Astral with the banning and unfairness of the elemental choices for new wizards as storm was actually the best and most powerful of them all (for a fact), and Shadow with the update bringing a new storyline and introducing the Order of Influence. Just sayng that there was no original ice keystone.