MTG Salvation

Sill one of the cheapest unrestricted discard outlets out there. Compare this to One With Nothing. Dredge decks use the imp to this day, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him if you're playing a few Madness cards. On top of that, a 2/2 that can't block is good for 1 mana.

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the two most expensive cards in the set, Intuition and Earthcraft, are not on the reserved list and will likely eventually be reprinted.

Intuition and Earthcraft are both reserved.

Sorry, when I looked it up on the wiki reserved listing I misread the way the columns were being used. It's left to right instead of up and down.

Fanatic of Mogis is kind of like Grey Merchant of Asphodel, but I see it played much less often. Just goes to show how good lifegain tacked on to something that can actually win you a game can be, I suppose. Also, heavy red devotion cards like Seismic Assault don't really play well into the Devotion->Damage strategy like Necropotence can. A lot of the better red-pip-heavy cards are creatures rather than sticky permanents; and recurring this thing in red is laughable compared to Animate dead and things black gets. Still nice that it hits each opponent, not a bad card by any means.

Did you expect better foiling? Have they promised to improve yet, or been silent to complaints and feedback?

This one really does have the artwork of something you could have seen in Stronghold or Urza's Destiny and it took a border switch for me to notice that

A big driver for the value of Tempest as a whole is the Wasteland in the uncommon slot. WOTC have not shied away from reprinting Wasteland and they may yet do it again. Scroll Rack has been reprinted several times very recently and the two most expensive cards in the set, Intuition and Earthcraft, are not on the reserved list and will likely eventually be reprinted. I do not think Tempest is a good long term investment.

While better than your average Keldon Champion due to hexproof, elves definitely have better payoffs for having a ton of them in play. I'd suggest either Dungrove Elder for your going-tall hexproofy green strategies, or Alpha Status for elves that want to beat in with one creature (Auras like this are generally bad, but the psuedo-haste you get from being able to attack right away can be underestimated when you're getting lethal-levels of pump)

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Who'd play this over Naturalize? Maybe if you're running Kavu Predator

Why play Elite Vanguard when you can have Youthful Knight? Clearly the knight is better, he has first strike!
Gaining your opponent a small amount of life in exchange for one less mana spent is a good deal a lot of the time, though Naturalize comes out on top against Chalice of the Void X=1. Return to Nature kind of turns Naturalize into a coaster in a way that Claim can't necessarily do, though, because it does the exact same job, but better.

Despite scaling up in multiplayer, not the kind of card you typically want to run in multiplayer. If you want this effect, I'd suggest Exsanguinate before this, or just abandon the lifegain altogether for Torment of Hailfire.

Sawtooth Loon is pretty trashgarbage on its own, but it could be a solid durdle card alongside Teferi's Ageless Insight.

Pretty nice with Thran Weaponry and something that wipes the board

Even after all these years it can still be very large and evasive. Probably better to use Lashwrithe or Korlash, Heir to Blackblade even if they don't have evasion built into them. Nightmare is notably not as bad as Dakmor Sorceress. Remember inverse power creep? Good times.

Are any of these on The List for Kaldheim?

Call of the Wild is nice with Hua Tuo, Honored Physician and Volrath's Stronghold, also some tutors. Works like a better Zoologist.

Biorhythm is pretty obvious when you're supposed to cast

I'd say Coercive Portal is usually better in 1v1 games, and this is a contender in multiplayer. For colorless artifact cards in this set, I think Pyre of Heroes and Replicating Ring are way more impressive boasts than this card, but I wouldn't call it useless. Solid target for a big Echo Storm.