Temporal Spring

1GU

Sorcery

Put Target Permanent on Top of its Owners Library

 

Single Card Strategy for: Temporal Spring

The first time me and my friends took a look at Temporal Spring we thought

it was one crappy card.  I mean, who cares if you're just putting a

permanent on top of the library??  After all, they're just going to be

bringing it out next turn.  Not to mention the fact it wasn't even at the

speed of an instant.  I have a little faith in WotC so I made a multi-color

deck just for using four Temporal Spring.  That's when the true beauty of

the card hit me.  Temporal Spring gets its most value in the early turns of

the game, before you're facing down a horde of creatures.  Not hard to cast

on the third turn fairly often, early in the game its almost like getting

another turn.  Most of the time your opponent will have only lands on the

board or maybe just a small creature card.  The most effective use of

Temporal Spring comes from putting a land back on top of the library.  That

way not only will your opponent not be drawing a killer card, but you've

also slowed down their land development.  In a multi-color deck, that extra

turn it gains you can be crucial to help getting all the color mana

available that you need.   Later in the game, Temporal Spring can have other

uses.  Draw that counter spell the turn after they played Spirit Monger???

No problem, Temporal Spring puts it back on your opponents library so you

can counter it next time.  While creature enchantments are that heavily

played anymore,  you get extra card efficiency if you can bounce a creature

back with enchantments on it.  Temporal Spring wont be the staple card for

World Final tournament worthy Type 2 decks, but for casual play or smaller

less aggressive tournaments, it does have its uses.

Chad Green

cgreen@mountainbank.net