CardShark Content - Nick Rohr (8/5/2001)

The Quick Aren’t the Dead

Its no surprise that speed dominates. It can be held down, but that’s a feat in itself. Repeating blow after blow is quite a path to victory. My article ´´Burn Class 101´´ explained burn. As with recursion, speed isn’t just Red. Actually, all colors have had their hand in speed. So I will then explain certain speed for certain colors that have proven to ´´fill the boots.´´

BLACK

It isn’t a surprise that Black has most of the popularity as far as speed goes. I believe it was 1996 (correct me if I’m wrong) that was dubbed the Black Summer all because of one card: Necropotence

Necropotence
	Set: Fifth Edition Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Skip your draw phase.Whenever you discard a card, remove that card from the game.Pay 1 life: Set aside the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your discard phase.

. (This is also my favorite card.) It rewrote the book of speed. Its “Oomph” was also added with some other speedy disruption. (Strip Mine

Strip Mine
	Set: Fourth Edition Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: U Artist: Daniel Gelon Text: T: Add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool.T: Sacrifice Strip Mine to destroy target land.

, Hymn to Tourach

Hymn to Tourach
	Set: Fallen Empires Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 12 Artist: Susan Van Camp Text: Target player discards two cards at random from his or her hand. If target player does not have enough cards, his or her entire hand is discarded.

, Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Sandra Everingham Text: Add BBB to your mana pool.

, Hypnotic Specter

Hypnotic Specter
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Specter Rarity: U Artist: Douglas Shuler Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying An opponent damaged by Specter must discard a card at random from his or her hand. Ignore this effect if opponent has no cards left in hand.

and Black Knight

Black Knight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Knight Rarity: U Artist: Jeff A. Menges Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Protection from white, first strike

to name a few) The newer Necro deck was even nastier with Duress

Duress
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 132 Artist: Lawrence Snelly Text: Look at target opponent's hand and choose a noncreature, nonland card there. That player discards that card.

.

Old Necro (type 1)

Black (30)

4:Hypnotic Specter

Hypnotic Specter
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Specter Rarity: U Artist: Douglas Shuler Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying An opponent damaged by Specter must discard a card at random from his or her hand. Ignore this effect if opponent has no cards left in hand.

3:Necropotence

Necropotence
	Set: Fifth Edition Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Skip your draw phase.Whenever you discard a card, remove that card from the game.Pay 1 life: Set aside the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your discard phase.

4:Sinkhole

Sinkhole
	Set: Alpha Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Sandra Everingham Text: Destroys any one land.

4:Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Sandra Everingham Text: Add BBB to your mana pool.

3:Drain Life

Drain Life
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Drain Life does 1 damage to a single target for each B spent in addition to the casting cost. Caster gains 1 life for each damage inflicted. If you drain life from a creature, you cannot gain more life than the creature's current toughness.

1:Ishan Shade
4:Black Knight

Black Knight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Knight Rarity: U Artist: Jeff A. Menges Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Protection from white, first strike

3:Mind Twist

Mind Twist
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Artist: Julie Baroh Text: Opponent must discard X cards at random from hand. If opponent doesn't have enough cards in hand, entire hand is discarded.

4:Hymn to Tourach

Hymn to Tourach
	Set: Fallen Empires Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 12 Artist: Susan Van Camp Text: Target player discards two cards at random from his or her hand. If target player does not have enough cards, his or her entire hand is discarded.

Artifacts (7)

3:Ivory Tower

Ivory Tower
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: R Artist: Margaret Organ-Kean Text: During your upkeep phase, gain 1 life for each card in your hand above four.

1:Jayemdae Tome

Jayemdae Tome
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 4 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: R Artist: Mark Tedin Text: 4, T: Draw one extra card.

3:Nevinyrral’s Disk

Land (23)

17:Swamp

Swamp
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add B to your mana pool.

2:Ebon Stronghold

Ebon Stronghold
	Set: Fifth Edition Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: U Artist: Liz Danforth Text: Ebon Stronghold comes into play tapped.T: Add B to your mana pool.tap, Sacrifice Ebon Stronghold: Add BB to your mana pool.

4:Strip Mine

Strip Mine
	Set: Fourth Edition Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: U Artist: Daniel Gelon Text: T: Add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool.T: Sacrifice Strip Mine to destroy target land.

Mana cost analysis:
1cc: 7
2cc: 15
3cc: 7
4cc: 4
5cc: 1
Xcc: 3

I believe it was that or something very similar. So, if I’m wrong, e-mail me and say, ´´hey, it’s yadda yadda yadda ´´ Next is on of the most popular black speed decks: the Suicide deck! (Dah-dah-dah-DUH! That was supposed to be a dramatic reverb interlude, so please pretend you heard it)

Suicide Black

Black (40)

4:Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Sandra Everingham Text: Add BBB to your mana pool.

4:Carnophage

Carnophage
	Set: Exodus Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Zombie Rarity: C Number: 53 Artist: Pete Venters Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: During your upkeep, pay 1 life or tap Carnophage.

4:Black Knight

Black Knight
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Knight Rarity: U Artist: Jeff A. Menges Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Protection from white, first strike

4:Phyrexian Negator

Phyrexian Negator
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Horror Rarity: R Number: 65 Artist: John Zeleznik Power: 5 Toughness: 5 Text: TrampleWhenever Phyrexian Negator is dealt damage, sacrifice a permanent for each 1 damage dealt to it.

4:Foul Imp

Foul Imp
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Imp Rarity: C Number: 9 Artist: Jim Nelson Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying When Foul Imp comes into play, lose 2 life.

1:Infernal Contract

Infernal Contract
	Set: Classic Sixth Edition Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 139 Artist: Roger Raupp Text: Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

2:Hatred

Hatred
	Set: Exodus Cost: 5 Color: Black Type: Instant Rarity: R Number: 64 Artist: Brom Text: Pay X life: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

4:Maggot Carrier

Maggot Carrier
	Set: Planeshift Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Zombie Rarity: C Number: 45 Artist: Ron Spencer Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: When Maggot Carrier comes into play, each player loses 1 life.

3:Skittering Skirge

Skittering Skirge
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Imp Rarity: C Number: 158 Artist: Ron Spencer Power: 3 Toughness: 2 Text: Flying When you successfully cast a creature spell, sacrifice Skittering Skirge.

2:Skittering Horror

Skittering Horror
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 3 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Horror Rarity: C Number: 70 Artist: Mark Zug Power: 4 Toughness: 3 Text: When you play a creature spell, sacrifice Skittering Horror.

4:Unearth

Unearth
	Set: Urza's Legacy Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 72 Artist: Don Hazeltine Text: Choose target creature card in your graveyard with total casting cost 3 or less and put that creature into play.Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)

4:Duress

Duress
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 132 Artist: Lawrence Snelly Text: Look at target opponent's hand and choose a noncreature, nonland card there. That player discards that card.

Artifacts (4)

4:Mox Diamond

Mox Diamond
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 0 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: R Number: 132 Artist: Dan Frazier Text: When Mox Diamond comes into play, choose and discard a land card or sacrifice Mox Diamond.T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

(I just use lotus petals)

Land (16)
16:Swamp

Swamp
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add B to your mana pool.

Mana cost analysis:
1cc: 20
2cc: 8
3cc: 10
4cc: 0
5cc: 2

Just play creature, next turn drop another. Creature enhancers are also a good idea. Try Spinal Graft

Spinal Graft
	Set: Tempest Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Ron Spencer Text: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.If enchanted creature is the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature. The creature cannot be regenerated this turn.

, Unholy Strength

Unholy Strength
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Black Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Target creature gains +2/+1.

, Sinister Strength

Sinister Strength
	Set: Planeshift Cost: 2 Color: Black Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Number: 54 Artist: Terese Nielsen Text: Enchanted creature gets +3/+1 and is black.

, etc.

BLUE

Blue’s speed relies in the fish. I’m only going to post one deck for Blue and White speed because most of their really successful decks are a little slower. (Of course that’s in my opinion, I could be wrong…)

Fish

Blue (40)

3:Dominating Licid

Dominating Licid
	Set: Exodus Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Licid Rarity: R Number: 30 Artist: Heather Hudson Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: 1UU, T: Dominating Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchantment that reads Gain control of enchanted creature instead of any other type of permanent. Move Dominating Licid onto target creature. You may pay U to end this effect.

1:Rootwater Shaman

Rootwater Shaman
	Set: Tempest Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Merfolk Rarity: R Artist: Paolo Parente Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: You may play creature enchantments whenever you could play an instant.

4:Counterspell

Counterspell
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: U Artist: Mark Poole Text: Counters target spell as it is being cast.

4:Forbid

Forbid
	Set: Exodus Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 35 Artist: Scott Kirschner Text: Buyback Choose and discard two cards. (You may choose and discard two cards in addition to any other costs when you play this spell. If you do, put Forbid into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.) Counter target spell.

4:Coral Merfolk

Coral Merfolk
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Merfolk Rarity: C Number: 67 Artist: rk post Power: 2 Toughness: 1

4:Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Merfolk Rarity: C Artist: Jeff A. Menges Power: 1 Toughness: 1

4:Manta Riders

Manta Riders
	Set: Tempest Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Merfolk Rarity: C Artist: Kaja Foglio Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: U: Manta Riders gains flying until end of turn.

4:Capsize

Capsize
	Set: Tempest Cost: 3 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Tom Wänerstrand Text: Buyback 3 (You may pay an additional 3 when you play this spell. If you do, put it into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.) Return target permanent to owner's hand.

4:Boomerang

Boomerang
	Set: Fifth Edition Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Text: Return target permanent to owner's hand.

4:Sandbar Merfolk

Sandbar Merfolk
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Merfolk Rarity: C Number: 94 Artist: rk post Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)

4:Lord of Atlantis

Lord of Atlantis
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Lord Rarity: R Artist: Melissa A. Benson Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: All Merfolk in play gain islandwalk and +1/+1 while this card is in play.

Land (20)

4:Saprazzan Skerry

Saprazzan Skerry
	Set: Mercadian Masques Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Number: 328 Artist: Pat Morrissey Text: Saprazzan Skerry comes into play tapped with two depletion counters on it.tap, Remove a depletion counter from Saprazzan Skerry: Add two blue mana to your mana pool. If there are no depletion counters on Saprazzan Skerry, sacrifice it.

16:Island

Island
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add U to your mana pool.

Mana cost analysis:
1cc: 12
2cc: 16
3cc: 11
4cc: 1

Yeah, I know most other Fish decks use, well, Fish, but I decided to utilize the Lord of Atlantis

Lord of Atlantis
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Lord Rarity: R Artist: Melissa A. Benson Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: All Merfolk in play gain islandwalk and +1/+1 while this card is in play.

and make his ability more useful. Good fish to use: Hammerhead Shark

Hammerhead Shark
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Fish Rarity: C Number: 32 Artist: Stephen Daniele Power: 2 Toughness: 3 Text: Hammerhead Shark cannot attack unless defending player controls any islands.

, Dandan, Man-O-War, School of Piranha

School of Piranha
	Set: Exodus Cost: 2 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Fish Rarity: C Number: 45 Artist: Daren Bader Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: During your upkeep, pay 1U or sacrifice School of Piranha.

. You get the idea.

WHITE

White is usually associated with “white weenie”. The deck had one and two drops backed up with Armageddon

Armageddon
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Artist: Jesper Myrfors Text: All lands in play are destroyed.

and Crusade

Crusade
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: White Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Artist: Mark Poole Text: All white creatures gain +1/+1.

s. It can be very powerful and devastating to the slow opponent. For this article, I have chosen to look at another deck instead.

Now, this isn’t my idea. I was given the idea of Turbo Chant from a friend. All he told me was what it did, not what was in the deck. So, this is my take on the very speedy, very controlling, Turbo Chant.

Turbo Chant

White (38)

4:Orim

Orim
	Set: Vanguard Sub Type: Character Rarity: X Number: 5 Artist: Rebecca Guay Power: +0 Toughness: +12 Text: Your creatures can block as though they had flying.

’s Chant
4:Abeyance

Abeyance
	Set: Oversize Cards Cost: 2 Color: White Type: Instant Rarity: X Artist: Thomas Gianni Text: Until end of turn, target player cannot play instants, interrupts, sorceries, or abilities requiring an activation cost.Draw a card.

3:Disenchant

Disenchant
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: White Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Amy Weber Text: Target enchantment or artifact is destroyed.

4:Aura of Silence

Aura of Silence
	Set: Weatherlight Cost: 3 Color: White Type: Enchantment Rarity: U Artist: D. Alexander Gregory Text: Artifact and enchantment spells cost target opponent an additional 2 to play.Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

3:Abolish

Abolish
	Set: Prophecy Cost: 3 Color: White Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 1 Artist: Kev Walker Text: You may discard a plains from your hand instead of paying Abolish's mana cost. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

4:Mageta the Lion

Mageta the Lion
	Set: Prophecy Cost: 5 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Spellshaper Legend Rarity: R Number: 13 Artist: Brom Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: 2WW, T, Discard two cards from your hand: Destroy all creatures except for Mageta the Lion. Those creatures can't be regenerated.

4:Glittering Lynx

Glittering Lynx
	Set: Prophecy Cost: 1 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: C Number: 11 Artist: Dan Frazier Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Glittering Lynx.2: Until end of turn, Glittering Lynx loses Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Glittering Lynx. Any player may play this ability.

4:Glittering Lion

Glittering Lion
	Set: Prophecy Cost: 3 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: U Number: 10 Artist: Don Hazeltine Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Glittering Lion. 3: Until end of turn, Glittering Lion loses Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Glittering Lion. Any player may play this ability.

4:Parallax Wave

Parallax Wave
	Set: Nemesis Cost: 4 Color: White Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 17 Artist: Greg Staples Text: Fading 5 Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Remove target creature from the game. When Parallax Wave leaves play, each player returns to play all cards he or she owns removed from the game with Parallax Wave.

4:Topple

Topple
	Set: Nemesis Cost: 3 Color: White Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 24 Artist: Daren Bader Text: Remove target creature with the greatest power from the game. (If two or more creatures are tied for greatest power, target only one of them.)

Land (22)

18:Plains

Plains
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add W to your mana pool.

4:Remote Farm

Remote Farm
	Set: Mercadian Masques Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Number: 323 Artist: Rob Alexander Text: Remote Farm comes into play tapped with two depletion counters on it.tap, Remove a depletion counter from Remote Farm: Add two white mana to your mana pool. If there are no depletion counters on Remote Farm, sacrifice it.

Mana cost analysis:
1cc: 8
2cc: 7
3cc: 15
4cc: 4
5cc: 4

GREEN

Green is king of speed because of the elves. They just speed things up a lot. If you think elves would only help a little, but not too much, you haven’t played this Green deck.

Stomp!

Green (44)

4:Llanowar Elves

Llanowar Elves
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elves Rarity: C Artist: Anson Maddocks Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: T: Add G to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.

4:Fyndhorn Elves

Fyndhorn Elves
	Set: Ice Age Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Elves Rarity: C Artist: Justin Hampton Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: T: Add G to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt.

4:Hunted Wumpus

Hunted Wumpus
	Set: Mercadian Masques Cost: 4 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: U Number: 253 Artist: Brian Snoddy Power: 6 Toughness: 6 Text: When Hunted Wumpus comes into play, each other player may put a creature card from his or her hand into play under his or her control.

4:Emporer Crocodile
4:Ernham Djinn
4:Wall of Blossoms

Wall of Blossoms
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Wall Rarity: U Number: 75 Artist: Heather Hudson Power: 0 Toughness: 4 Text: (Walls cannot attack.) When Wall of Blossoms comes into play, draw a card.

4:Hunting Moa

Hunting Moa
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 3 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Beast Rarity: U Number: 109 Artist: DiTerlizzi Power: 3 Toughness: 2 Text: Echo Whenever Hunting Moa comes into play or is put into a graveyard from play, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

4:Pouncing Jaguar

Pouncing Jaguar
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: C Number: 269 Artist: Daren Bader Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)

4:Eldamri’s Vineyard
4:Scent of Ivy

Scent of Ivy
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 120 Artist: John Avon Text: Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Land (20)

16:Forest

Forest
	Set: Oversize Cards Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: X Artist: Tony Roberts Text: T: Add G to your mana pool.

4:Hickory Woodlot

Hickory Woodlot
	Set: Mercadian Masques Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Number: 319 Artist: Sean McConnell Text: Hickory Woodlot comes into play tapped with two depletion counters on it.tap, Remove a depletion counter from Hickory Woodlot: Add two green mana to your mana pool. If there are no depletion counters on Hickory Woodlot, sacrifice it.

Mana cost analysis:
1cc: 20
2cc: 4
3cc: 4
4cc: 12

Speedy elves chuck those Wumpusses (is that a word? Is Wumpus even a word? Oh well…) and Blastos (???). There isn’t too much to say about this one. Eldamri’s Vineyard gives you a big edge and your opponent mana-burn in most cases. Scent of Ivy

Scent of Ivy
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 1 Color: Green Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 120 Artist: John Avon Text: Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

is a quick boost.

RED

This deck we’ve all seen, but here it is again!

The Usual Sligh

Red (36)

4:Jackal Pup

Jackal Pup
	Set: Tempest Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Hound Rarity: U Artist: Susan Van Camp Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: For each 1 damage dealt to Jackal Pup, it deals 1 damage to you.

4:Ball Lightning

Ball Lightning
	Set: Fourth Edition Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Ball Lightning Rarity: R Artist: Quinton Hoover Power: 6 Toughness: 1 Text: Trample Ball Lightning can attack the turn it comes into play. At the end of any turn, bury Ball Lightning.

4:Incnerate
4:Shock

Shock
	Set: Classic Sixth Edition Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 206 Artist: Randy Gallegos Text: Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

4:Mogg Fanatic

Mogg Fanatic
	Set: Tempest Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Artist: Brom Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice Mogg Fanatic: Mogg Fanatic deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

4:Sonic Burst

Sonic Burst
	Set: Exodus Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 103 Artist: Brian Snoddy Text: Discard a card at random: Sonic Burst deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

4:Seal of Fire

Seal of Fire
	Set: Nemesis Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: C Number: 98 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Sacrifice Seal of Fire: Seal of Fire deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

4:Mogg Flunkies

Mogg Flunkies
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblins Rarity: C Number: 92 Artist: Brom Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: Mogg Flunkies cannot attack or block during a turn in which no other creature you control attacks or blocks.

4:Raging Goblin

Raging Goblin
	Set: Classic Sixth Edition Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 200 Artist: Jeff Miracola Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Haste (This creature may attack and tap the turn it comes under your control.)

Artifacts (8)

4:Cursed Scroll

Cursed Scroll
	Set: Oversize Cards Cost: 1 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: X Artist: D. Alexander Gregory Text: 3, T:Name a card. Target opponent chooses a card at random from your hand. If he or she chooses the named card, Cursed Scoll deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

4:Lotus Petal

Lotus Petal
	Set: Tempest Cost: 0 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: C Artist: April Lee Text: tap, Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

Land (16)

16:Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

Mana cost analysis:
1cc: 24
2cc: 8
3cc: 4

Other familiar additions were Fireblast

Fireblast
	Set: Visions Cost: 6 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Artist: Michael Danza Text: You may sacrifice two mountains instead of paying Fireblast's casting cost. Fireblast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

, Bottle Gnomes

Bottle Gnomes
	Set: Tempest Cost: 3 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Creature Rarity: U Artist: Kaja Foglio Power: 1 Toughness: 3 Text: Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: Gain 3 life.

, Boil

Boil
	Set: Classic Sixth Edition Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: U Number: 169 Artist: Jason Alexander Behnke Text: Destroy all islands.

, and Earthquake

Earthquake
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Artist: Dan Frazier Text: Does X damage to each player and each non-flying creature in play.

(as a reset button). Tempest was Sligh’s shining moment. It gave Sligh Cursed Scroll

Cursed Scroll
	Set: Oversize Cards Cost: 1 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: X Artist: D. Alexander Gregory Text: 3, T:Name a card. Target opponent chooses a card at random from your hand. If he or she chooses the named card, Cursed Scoll deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

, Lotus Petal

Lotus Petal
	Set: Tempest Cost: 0 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: C Artist: April Lee Text: tap, Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

, Mogg Fanatic

Mogg Fanatic
	Set: Tempest Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Artist: Brom Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice Mogg Fanatic: Mogg Fanatic deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

and Jackal Pup

Jackal Pup
	Set: Tempest Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Hound Rarity: U Artist: Susan Van Camp Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: For each 1 damage dealt to Jackal Pup, it deals 1 damage to you.

. And some cards not used here, but in most other Sligh decks from Tempest were Giant Strength

Giant Strength
	Set: Fourth Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Justin Hampton Text: Target creature gets +2/+2.

, Canyon Wildcat

Canyon Wildcat
	Set: Tempest Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Cat Rarity: C Artist: Gary Leach Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Mountainwalk (If defending player controls any mountains, this creature is unblockable.)

and Rathi Dragon

Rathi Dragon
	Set: Tempest Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Dragon Rarity: R Artist: Christopher Rush Power: 5 Toughness: 5 Text: Flying When Rathi Dragon comes into play, sacrifice two mountains or sacrifice Rathi Dragon.

. Tempest was the main sligh set, but what about the other sets? Can someone say Goblin Grenade

Goblin Grenade
	Set: Fallen Empires Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 114 Artist: Ron Spencer Text: Sacrifice a Goblin to have Goblin Grenade deal 5 damage to one target.

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Well, in conclusion, speed decks have been around since players noticed that turn one was more than just a turn to play a land. Channel

Channel
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Green Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Artist: Richard Thomas Text: Until end of turn, you may add colorless mana to your mana pool at a cost of 1 life per point of mana. These additions are played with the speed of an interrupt. Effects that prevent or redirect damage may not be used to counter this loss of life.

/Fireball

Fireball
	Set: Revised Edition Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Mark Tedin Text: Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.

has proven itself to be awesome. Stay tuned for the follow up on how good control is. This has been another article by Nick Rohr, signing out.

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