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Hate you Wizards... Where's my Ugin vs Jace!!!???!!!

Divine vs Demonic: The Grudge Match

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Quote from Bolas, the Mindsculptor »

Hate you Wizards... Where's my Ugin vs Jace!!!???!!!

So that is a little bit of a joke but I thought for sure an Ugin dual deck was incoming. I see no good way to get enough of these guys our there. Maybe they will start reprinting planewalkers in other supplementals more often

WHAT?!

But the PW decks pretty much always sold better, didn't they?
This is an especially odd call after also eliminating core sets-
where will they reprint PWs now?

Quote from Marquisd »

Looks like they are doing away with the Planeswalker Vs decks.

Curious. I assume they have market research that says this is the smart play, but by and large players I know only buy the planeswalker dual decks and mostly ignore the non-planeswalker ones. If anything I'd have thought they would go the opposite direction.

Why? Didn't they do a speed vs cunning duel deck along side the plainswalker duel deck?

Wizards has been dropping the ball on teasers. Here have this duel deck name with vague details and no art!

This is puzzling. I get that they want Duel Decks to coincide closely with the newest set, but dropping the planeswalker portion seems like a bad move.

Maybe the primary audience of duel decks doesn't care either way.

Wait what? They're not making planesalker DDs anymore? What the hell. New players eat Planeswalkers up. You can't get much flashier than a deck with two free shiny Planeswalker cards! These Duel Decks were often the one way to get expensive Planeswalker cards into the hands of people who normally couldn't afford them as well. Screw this. I guess I'm not buying anymore DDs...

I for one, love the non-PW decks. Not everything has to revolve around the planeswalkers all the time. Not to mention this isn't the last DD.... so why the "they're not doing PW dds anymore??"

Especially considering there is a much heavier focus on PWs now in the main sets.

simple duel deck name, and Cranial it is Garruk that is cursed by it, Liliana is not actually cursed.

there could be planeswalkers in a themed DD release, and they are just moving to a naming convention that focuses on setting and theme more than contents? that aligns with the new 2 blocks per year release well, so that makes sense that each DD will tie to the current block thematically. and sorin vs tybalt wasnt the best innistrad showcase deck IMHO. I do think the DD balance and flavor is the crucial thing to nail to make them feel like standalone "board game" magic releases. Personally, I ONLY buy duel decks for the past several years and don't see this changing, and will continue to do so if the play is good regardless of what the chase cards are.

The reason we're getting 2 preview decks instead of 1 preview deck and 1 planeswalker deck is the new 2-block system.

If anything I wonder if this means we'll see the Planeswalker reprints in Event decks.

Quote from DarklingScribe »

If anything I wonder if this means we'll see the Planeswalker reprints in Event decks.

Heh, I was *just* about to post this-
I could definitely see it, especially since they just added Mythics to them kind of randomly.

I could also see the situation FlameJuggler describes,
where all of these decks going forward are faction decks with PW face cards.

As far as non-PW DD's go, the Izzet vs. Golgari deck actually had some great reprints in it. Hopefully this is on par with that one, or at least not any worse than Heroes vs. Monsters. Let's just hope it's not another Speed vs. Cunning.

Maybe these will have PWs in them.

Liliana of the Veil is pretty cursed amirite?!?! lol

Quote from Marquisd »

Feb 26th release date

Significantly earlier than we're used to getting them. Shadows over Innistrad isn't supposed to be out until April. Curious.

I wonder if this hints that the enchantment subtype Aura Curse is going to get more support in Shadows over Innistrad?

So we will never get our Sarkhan vs Sarkhan DD?

Feeling Geist of Saint Traft might be leading the Blessed side of the battle.

Planeswalker Duel Decks come out when a set rotates out, so when Khans rotates is when we'll get Sarkhan Vs. Sorrin, or the like, this will be the introductory DD for Shadows over innistrad, that's why there are no Planeswalkers

I think it would be sweet to see Avacyn, Angel of Hope vs Griselbrand