Is Tempest Remastered available in paper?

No. Tempest Remastered is a Magic Online-exclusive set. It was never printed in physical form and has no paper booster packs. If you want the cards in paper, you'd need to find original Tempest block printings.

How many cards are in Tempest Remastered?

Tempest Remastered contains 269 cards: 101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares, and 20 basic lands. These were selected from the 621 cards across the original Tempest, Stronghold, and Exodus sets.

When was Tempest Remastered released?

Tempest Remastered was released on Magic Online on May 6, 2015. It was available for a limited window, ending May 27, 2015, though it was planned to return at a later date.

Why was Tempest Remastered made?

It had two main goals: to increase the supply of sought-after Tempest block cards on Magic Online to support the Legacy format, and to create a modernised, standalone Draft environment from the original block's card pool.

Does Tempest Remastered have new artwork?

No new artwork was created for Tempest Remastered. The cards use the same art as the original Tempest block printings, but they were updated to use the modern card frame introduced in Eighth Edition.

What formats is Tempest Remastered legal in?

Because Tempest Remastered is a reprint set on Magic Online, the cards are legal in whatever formats the original printings are legal in — most notably Legacy and Vintage. The set itself doesn't add new cards to any format's legality.

Tempest Remastered (TPR): The Complete Set Guide

There's a particular kind of Magic history locked inside the Tempest block - powerful cards, foundational archetypes, and a draft environment that shaped how a generation of players thought about Limited. The problem? Getting your hands on those cards on Magic Online was genuinely painful by 2015. Tempest Remastered was the fix.

What is Tempest Remastered?

Tempest Remastered (TPR) is a Magic Online-exclusive reprint set released on May 6, 2015. It was available for a limited window - just until May 27, 2015 - though it was planned to return at a later date. You won't find physical booster packs of this one at your local game store; it existed purely in the digital realm of Magic Online.

The set contains 269 cards in total, broken down as follows:

| Rarity | Count | |---|---| | Common | 101 | | Uncommon | 80 | | Rare | 53 | | Mythic Rare | 15 | | Basic Land | 20 |

The original Tempest block - Tempest (1997), Stronghold (1998), and Exodus (1998) - contained 621 cards across its three sets. Tempest Remastered distilled that down to the best 269, which is a pretty ruthless edit. Think of it as a greatest-hits compilation rather than a complete anthology.

Purpose and design goals

Tempest Remastered had two jobs to do, and they pulled in slightly different directions.

The first was supporting the Legacy format on Magic Online. Many of the Tempest block's most sought-after cards were scarce and expensive on the platform, which created a real barrier for players who wanted to compete in Legacy. A fresh print run - even a digital one - put those cards into more hands.

The second job was creating a playable, modern Draft environment. And this is where the design work gets interesting.

Making a 1990s block draftable in 2015

Draft as a format has evolved enormously since the late 1990s. The original Tempest block was designed for a different era - one where the rules around card advantage, mana curves, and draft signalling were understood very differently by both designers and players. Drafting the original block in sequence (Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus) in 2015 would have been a rough experience.

To solve this, the Tempest Remastered team culled the card pool down to the archetypes that actually played well and addressed several specific issues with the original block's draft environment. The result was a single-set draft format that captured the flavour of Tempest block without the friction of its era.

The cards received new card frames - the modern frame introduced in Eighth Edition (2003) rather than the old pre-Eighth frame - but no new artwork was commissioned. If you loved the original Tempest art, it's all still there.

Limited and Draft

Because Tempest Remastered was designed specifically to be drafted as a standalone set, Limited was arguably the primary way to experience it during its availability window.

The design philosophy here was curation over completeness. By selecting only the 269 cards that supported the best-playing archetypes from the block, the team could ensure that Draft pods had meaningful decisions and coherent synergies without the noise of cards that were underpowered, parasitic, or just confusing in a draft context.

The set's short availability window - just three weeks - meant that the Draft community had a limited time to fully map the format, which gave it a slightly frontier quality. Players were discovering the archetypes in real time.

Set legacy

Tempest Remastered sits in an interesting niche in Magic's history. It was one of the earlier experiments with the "Remastered" set concept on Magic Online - the idea that you could take a beloved older block, edit it thoughtfully, and release it as a self-contained draft experience. That template has since been used for sets like Vintage Masters and Eternal Masters.

For Legacy players on Magic Online, it mattered a great deal in a practical sense. Increased supply of Tempest block staples helped make the format more accessible on the platform, even if the availability window was brief.

For everyone else, it's a fascinating artifact: a set that only ever existed digitally, available for three weeks, built from cards that are now nearly thirty years old. There's something almost poetic about that - a remaster of a storm that happened a long time ago, conjured briefly and then allowed to pass.