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Produced twice per year, the Duel Decks have begun to be compared to Clash Packs, a similar product that has two decks which can be played against each other. Duel Decks have often fallen victim to their own over-saturation, in that they are meant to serve so many purposes that they often struggle to meet so many demands.
How does Zenikar vs. Eldrazi fair, when evaluated as a product for New Players? What about Experienced Players, is their any reason for them to purchase this product? Does it contain cards of interest to Collectors? How about strictly from a Financial Value perspective? What noteworthy Reprints are included here? And finally, how about just in terms of Fun?
As always, knowing your needs and wants as a player will determine whether or not this Duel Deck is of value to you. Let’s take a look.
Eldrazi vs. Zendikar contains the following:
Let’s start with financial value. As of the filming of this video, about one week after this product’s release, if you were to purchase the individual cards from this Duel Deck, the total cost to you for the singles would be 28.61.
MSRP is 19.99, but when we take a closer look at just what these individual cards are, we see the two most expensive cards in the collection aren’t even worth $5.00 each.
It That Betrays, formerly a 10+ card, has dropped to $4.10 due to its reprinting here. Oblivion Sower is currently a preorder item from Battle For Zendikar. The Duel Deck versions are currently going for about $4.63 on TCGPlayer, but after release this is likely to drop significantly.
Beyond that, the only other cards of value above $2.00 are Avenger of Zendikar at 3.68, and Primal Command, which due to its reprinting has dropped to $2.50.
This is a good segue to whether this Duel Deck contains cards that were in need of reprinting. Given that Duel Deck re printings do cause a significant drop in price, it’s a shame the command reprinted here wasn’t say, cryptic command, whose reprinting in Modern Masters had nearly no effect on it whatsoever.
Along those same lines, Stirring Wildwood, a manaland that sees very little play, could have been much more appealing if it had been a Celestial Colonnade or Creeping Tar Pit instead. Or one of each, quite frankly.
Unlike many previous Duel Decks, Eldrazi vs Zendikar has nothing particularly noteworthy in terms of cards that ended a reprint.
In fact, instead of a much needed rare or two, we were given instead Forked Bolt, an uncommon that had an oddly high price due to its success in Delver decks, now much more affordable due to its reprint, and Groundswell, a green pump staple that wasn’t too high to begin with due to its being a common, but now will be securely affordable.
All in all, the large printing of Duel Deck will ensure these prices continue to drop, and will very little of these cards even being playable outside of the Duel Decks in formats such as Modern, which this is a very underwhelming for financial value and for cards in need of reprints. This also means experienced players are going to see little if any need for this product.