Tempest Comments

Hey Frank, wait a sec! that's my name! anyway, rumor has it the Pro Tour format for the next LA event will be Tempest Constructed (not type 2). Some possibility that the next expansion, Stronghold, will be useable but probably not. Stronghold isn't set for release until late February, too late for most tournaments in March including the Pro Tour. What do I see? Well, looking over Tempest I find some ideas:

White/Blue 'Tempest Prison' trying to get down Orim's Prayer and Humility so that creatures cannot touch it while using CoP:Red and counters to stop burn and Tranquility. Other cards for this deck are Winds of Rath (the wrath of god thing) and Puppet Strings (hope I've got these card names right), possibly Essence Bottle for some life gain. How does the deck win? Grindstone......

Another deck:

Sli-like: Mogg Fanatic (the 1/1 goblin suicide squad), Jackal Pup, Lightning Elemental, Kindle, Lightning Blast, Roaring Thunder, etc....haven't really thought it out, but has a lot of burn/speed.

What do we have to think about? No Nevinyrral's Disk, no Jokulhaups, no Armageddon, some of our most effective creatures are not present (centaur, pump knights, etc...). Shadow is a new dimension for creature combat. No real artifact mana (have to playtest those medallions!).

Anyway.....:) have fun
Frank T. Gilson
pontius@ix.netcom.com