Duel Deck Review: Chandra Nalaar vs Jace Beleren

So since the english version of this was released a year ago, the japanese version is the most recent form of this deck and it has pretty much the same contents, only  stylized in the japanese manga format and it has japanese text cards instead of the regular english cards, let's take a look at the decklists shall we?

1 Aethersnipe
1 Air Elemental
1 Bottle Gnomes
1 Brine Elemental
1 Errant Ephemeron
2 Fathom Seer
1 Fledgling Mawcor
1 Guile
2 Man-o
1 Martyr of Frost
2 Mulldrifter
1 Ophidian
1 Quicksilver Dragon
1 Riftwing Cloudskate
2 Spire Golem
1 Voidmage Apprentice
2 Wall of Deceit
1 Waterspout Djinn
1 Willbender
1 Ancestral Vision
2 Condescend
2 Counterspell
1 Daze
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gush
1 Jace Beleren
1 Mind Stone
2 Repulse
23 Island
1 Terrain Generator

This first list is jace's list which has nothing but blue cards in it, you'll find some cards useful for precon decks as precon decks go and the next list i will present is chandra's list.

1 Chartooth Cougar
1 Fireslinger
2 Flamekin Brawler
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Flamewave Invoker
2 Furnace Whelp
1 Hostility
1 Ingot Chewer
2 Inner-Flame Acolyte
2 Oxidda Golem
1 Pyre Charger
1 Rakdos Pit Dragon
2 Slith Firewalker
2 Soulbright Flamekin
1 Chandra Nalaar
1 Cone of Flame
1 Demonfire
2 Fireball
2 Fireblast
2 Firebolt
1 Flame Javelin
2 Incinerate
1 Magma Jet
2 Seal of Fire
1 Keldon Megaliths
24 Mountain

This is chandra's list and believe it or not, this is somewhat of a good one, though this precon duel deck will be running in limited supply personally, now let's talk about the deck itself. This duel deck was released about a year ago in grand fashion and was scooped up just as quickly note that these were in limited quanities so technically once they were gone you had to look them up on sites like Ebay and all that crap, but i digress, the actual deck is pretty dang decent there are some good 1's and 2's in here including Flame Javelin and Magma Jet which are perhaps two better burn spells in the game. There are some good and possibly some ultra broken cards on both sites of course as always, Rakdos Pit Dragon is a fine rare and all but nothing could compare to the awesomeness of the Seal of Fire, 1 drop and it pings for 2 when sac'ed bring it on folks. Jace's side of the board also has many tricks up it's sleeve personally i like how they brought this back after popular demand and such, though things could have turned out a little different and the decklists themselves could have been improved slightly for the japanese version, but however i believe it to be fine enough to warrant a reproduce in terms of distribution.


Jace's side of the board including cards we should be familar with in all respects as well, including the ever present Man-O-War and Aethersnipe, Mulldrifter as well as always is a welcome addition back to a duel deck and even counter magic which is my favorite kind in the form of Counterspell and even Daze, not to say this deck is kinda outmatched but the obvious thing is this has always been one for the reprint, the duel deck and not specific cards mind you, though i expect the japanese version of this deck to go just as quickly for the most part and start to sell online for it's english counterpart's price of about 80 or so dollars considering the amount of good cards for Legacy, EDH and even some Extended builds, overall another fine choice from wizards of the coast to make this a obvious reprint and i look forward to see a japanese elspeth vs tezzert duel deck soon as well thanks to this little incarnation brought back from the dead, i give this duel deck a official 4 seals of fire out of 5 or for those whom read this a 8 out of 10