Ravnica Allegiance is currently my focus in terms of Preconstructed Decks, and the Planeswalker Deck “Domri, City Smasher” was the last of the Planeswalker Decks I took a look at; and I crowned it the worst Planeswalker Deck I have seen so far. Terrible creatures combined with pretty underwhelming spells made for an overall bad deck. But that is in the past: For today, I have the counteroffer in form of the White-Blue Planeswalker Deck “Dovin, Architect of Law”. I expect some solid Control gameplay and definitely want to see a deck that brings more to the table than the lukewarm Aggro offering I was given before. Here is what the deck can do:

I love me some good old Red-Green Aggro. There is a beauty to the simplicity that is playing big creatures on curve and winning the game with brawn while the opponent struggles to get your monsters under control. Now, I am not opposed to some Control-heavy deck – and we will see that part when I get to the counterpart of this deck – but Red-Green Stompy can be good fun. And let’s be honest, the Gruul guild represents all that is great about the color combination, with big stats, lots of burn and destruction effects, paired with stat boosting and Trample. And some of those aspects will be featured in the deck at hand, Planeswalker Deck “Domri, City Smasher”; it just remains to be seen how effective the entire package can be when presented in a Preconstructed Deck format with a Planeswalker as its major focus.

Ah, a Black-Green deck, my favorite color combination in Magic the Gathering. I am not a fan of Vraska in particular, but seeing as I would decide against playing planeswalkers as a card type in general that is probably not saying much. But there is potential for the usual Golgari goodness: Helpful, multi-purpose removal, paired with creatures that come with death triggers and work with the graveyard as a secondary deck, I can tell you that this could be good. Now, I normally write the introduction as the last part of the article, so I know what lurks in the Planeswalker Deck “Vraska, Regal Gorgon”, but before I spoiler anything here I can only invite you to the article below and quite a journey in terms of cardboard quality.

Another Blue-Red deck, another chance for “The Sprinkler 2.0”. The Izzet color combination has become a bit of meme to me, seeing as there are tons of decks that I feel are absolutely terrible but are rated as some of the best 60-card Preconstructed Decks of all time by parts of the community, apparently since you need to have a major skill, foresight, and to be honest, quite a bit of luck to win with them. I can see some Izzet player sitting there with equations flying around their head for the optimal play using their limited mana in the best way possible just to be beaten to a pulp by the caveman Green Aggro player placing ever-bigger creatures every turn and simply shoving everything forward. But who knows? Maybe Planeswalker Deck “Ral, Caller of Storms” can live up to the (questionable) quality of “The Sprinkler” and other Blue-Red decks, giving you a multi-faceted and complex playing experience in Preconstructed Deck form. Only one way to find out, I guess.

The order in which I wrote the articles for this Blaugust was pretty much random, meaning I just picked a deck to write about now and then and finished the job in one sitting. This is also what happened one evening with the Planeswalker Deck “Teferi, Timebender”, a character that works with time control in a White-Blue deck. What I expected, as you will also read down below, is a Control deck because this combination screamed bounce, counter, stall, win by exhaustion. What I got is … hard to describe, that is for sure. A major theme of the deck at hand is working with historic spells, meaning legendaries, artifacts, and sagas, but without really committing to that idea or knowing where such a deck would even want to go in the first place. But enough introduction, here is a Planeswalker Deck with an identity crisis if I have ever seen one.

Wizards of the Coast seemed to have some ratio to fill when it comes to featuring their Justice League … pardon, Gatewatch, in the Preconstructed Decks of the time. Which is probably the reason why we get another entry with Chandra, the fire planeswalker that uses fire to burn things; and not much more to be honest. Chandra can normally be summarized with the word “damage” because you can assume that that word is printed at least three times on any given Chandra planeswalker. Now, Planeswalker Deck “Chandra, Bold Pyromancer” tries to bring a little more to the table than that by adding Kicker as a featured mechanic while also bringing Green along in terms of colors. Does this actually work out? Well, only one way to find out.