User blog comment:KillRoy231/Love & Pet/@comment-27111026-20150120071042/@comment-26973802-20150120190741

One thing that's overlooked about the wizards is that they fall into a crevice after they are frozen. They could still be alive, but they could just as easily have been shattered to pieces from that fall, just like that bird that gets frozen by the snake at the beginning of Season 3.