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First of all, welcome to the first 10th Edition theme deck clash. What is the theme deck clash?

Well, imagine if you had all the five 10th Edition theme decks and your mind started to wander… “What if someone battled these decks one against each other?”.

First of all, after having played some games with these theme decks I can assure you of one thing: these decks are pretty balanced against one another. They’re very simple but at the same time show all the potential of a given color. A common defect of all these theme decks is land percentage, you’re bound to get land flooded each and every game, it’s kind of annoying.

So let’s move on to the first match RED vs. BLUE!

On the Red corner: Kamahl’s Temper

And in the blue corner: Arcanis’s Guile

Red has a good start against blue, cheap efficient creatures and a good mana curve, blue has got to have some tricks initially to survive this onslaught.

Even though both decks are greatly affected by land flood it’s the blue one who suffers the most, red gets a little slowed down by the constant land flow, but blue with it’s card drawing and deck rearranging finds itself frustrated for getting yet another land when it’s looking for a solution (or the BOMB!).

Speaking of bombs, red has both Kamahl which is a great finisher and the Beacon (which is a repeating pain in the ass), blue has uhh, Arcanis and Denizen of The Deep? I can get Arcanis, it’s mildly powerful and full of blue flavor, but denizen? sure it has some cool interactions with sage owl, for 8 fricking mana! Even Mahamoti Djinn would be better than this! I thought the Timmy deck was the green deck for Urza’s sake!

The final result of this match was 2-1, Red won of course, but not because the blue deck is that bad, if you get the Kraken’s eye and start playing your cheap blue spells you’re good to go (Dragon’s Claw on the red deck just sucks), but because blue has a 11/11 beast for 8 mana with no kind of evasion and a huge drawback, it doesn’t have the super bomb blue has got to have to win, sure you may win some games with your fliers, it’s a solid strategy, but you’ll get beaten to a pulp on the ground by the red deck.

Also, the only time I got to play the Denizen it got threatened, and I got smashed with the Denizen on my open mouthed face.

And this ends the first clash folks, hope you like it. Tomorrow: White vs. Red!

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