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==Notable cards==
==Notable cards==
*<c>Cold Storage</c> - As written, people wondered what this card actually did with "{{3}}: Put target creature you control on Cold Storage". With errata, it now reads "{{3}}: Remove target creature you control from the game."
*<c>Cold Storage</c> - As written, people wondered what this card actually did with "{{3}}: Put target creature you control on Cold Storage". With errata, it now reads "{{3}}: Remove target creature you control from the game."
*<c>Cursed Scroll</c> - This is a powerful artifact, especially when you have 1 card in hand.  This card is worth even more in the Japanese language version as its activation cost was misprinted.
*<c>Cursed Scroll</c> - This is a powerful artifact, especially when you have 1 card in hand.  This card is worth even more in the Japanese language version as its activation cost was misprinted as {{2}} instead of {{3}}.
*<c>Humility</c>
*<c>Humility</c>
*<c>Lotus Petal</c> - This common artifact proved to be too powerful and was quickly banned from the Standard Format.
*<c>Lotus Petal</c> - This common artifact proved to be too powerful and was quickly banned from the Standard Format.

Revision as of 01:27, 19 February 2008

For other uses, see Tempest (disambiguation).

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Tempest is the twelfth Magic expansion and was released in 1997 as the first set in the Tempest block.

Mechanics and themes

The block mechanics Buyback and Shadow were introduced in this set. All colors had creatures with shadow except green. Green did have a creature that could block creatures with shadow and had a card that removed shadow from a creature.

The abilities associated with Slivers, Licids, Spikes and Flowstone were introduced in this set. Every color had a sliver and licid. There was one green spike. Flowstones are red creatures.

Cycles

Theme decks

The pre-constructed theme decks are:

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Notable cards

  • Cold Storage - As written, people wondered what this card actually did with "{3}: Put target creature you control on Cold Storage". With errata, it now reads "{3}: Remove target creature you control from the game."
  • Cursed Scroll - This is a powerful artifact, especially when you have 1 card in hand. This card is worth even more in the Japanese language version as its activation cost was misprinted as {2} instead of {3}.
  • Humility
  • Lotus Petal - This common artifact proved to be too powerful and was quickly banned from the Standard Format.
  • Tradewind Rider - This is a commonly found blue creature in bounce decks.

Legendary cards

Orim, Samite Healer; Commander Greven il-Vec; Starke of Rath; Eladamri, Lord of Leaves; Selenia, Dark Angel; and Vhati il-Dal.

Reprinted cards

The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets and included in Tempest.

Functional reprint

Tempest has one functional reprint:

Reckless Spite seems like a functional reprint of Wicked Pact from Portal but the Portal version is a sorcery.

External links

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