Tempest of Light

Tempest of Light was printed in the Ninth Edition core set of Magic: The Gathering, released in July 2005. As a core set, Ninth Edition was designed to provide a foundational pool of cards for players, featuring a mix of reprints that helped define the game's evolving mechanics and balance during that period. This specific white enchantment serves as a reactive tool, allowing players to destroy all enchantments, a staple function within the game's color identity to combat opposing board states.

The card features artwork by the illustrator Daren Bader, whose work has appeared on numerous Magic cards across several decades. Bader’s design for the piece emphasizes a dramatic, ethereal clearing of magical energies, aligning with the card's function of cleansing the battlefield. While the card is a functional reprint of effects seen in earlier iterations of the game, its inclusion in Ninth Edition was notable for the set's transition to the modern white card frame, which updated the aesthetic presentation of core set staples for a new generation of players.