Is it worth it to buy Blessed vs Cursed Magic The Gathering Duel Deck?
226The Prices:
Geist of St. Taft: Currently $13. Expect this to lost at least 50% after release.
Gravecrawler: $6. This should lose at least 50% as well, possibly more.
Champion of the Parish: $3. Naya Allies is a promising modern deck. I think that this will hold a $2 price tag well after release.
The Wild Cards:
Mindrack Demon. This one is tricky. The 4/5 body is ok for 4 mana. It is currently competing with many powerful 4 drops from Dragons of Tarkir and now Oath of the Gatewatch, particularly Kalitas, Thought-knot Seer, Thunderbreak Regent, Pia and Kiran Nalar and even Gideon. We will have to see if the mill 4 is relevant. With that said, I expect this to only command a $4 or less price tag.
Eerie Interlude. This is the real wild card or "wow factor". The card is insanely powerful in the right deck, however, it really needs to be built around. Cards like this remind me a lot of Rally the Ancestors, which has bounced around $2 even though it has seen an incredible amount of play. Collected Company is on similar power level in the right deck, but is extremely more flexible and can literally be shoved in most creature decks or completely built around (see modern). With that said, I think Eerie interlude represents more of a Rally the Ancestors than a Collected Company so a $2 price tag is probably the right call.
When the dust settles, this Duel Deck isn't very exciting and will most likely fall well below the $20 MSRP. It really needed something like a Remand on the conservative side, or Damnation on the extreme side to make this Duel Deck exciting.