Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra

I'm one of those personalities with the insatiable desire to know "what's inside?" Sometimes it backfires on me - like tonight: I spent the entire evening after work driving around most of Ottawa looking for the Collector's Edition of Street Fighter IV... and failing to acquire it. The last time I asked about pre-ordering it, there still hadn't been any info available about it so I decided not to reserve it at the time. Then later, when it was too late, I remembered to ask about it again and by then they had stopped taking orders.

Anyway, Jace Beleren was a character who debuted in the worlds of Magic the Gathering a little while back and figures greatly in a new novel recently published called "Agents of Artifice." But interestingly enough, a few months back, he also figured in his very own 2-player game: an all-in-one Duel Deck pitting him against Chandra Nalaar another Planeswalker mage who appeared back in the Lorwyn set.
Naturally, I looked at the box and said, "oooh shiny!"
...yes, that's a M:TG in-joke along the lines of Weirdguy seeing my copy of Agents of Artifice in its metallic dust-jacket and exclaiming, "oh, it's a foil book!" [insert rim-shot here]

The set comes with the two decks - 60 cards each and it apparently completely tournament legal to play. Each of course, is made up of cards reflecting the strategies those characters use. But the main draw is the alternate art on the reprinted Planeswalkers cards themselves. These are foil cards and represent the awesome power at hand if they show up in to help you.
Jace himself has very little loyalty to start (only 3 before he will quit on the player) but his super-power is to cycle 20 cards from the enemy deck into the graveyard - this could be a killer move if played late in the match. Chandra is a little more forgiving coming in with 6 loyalty points. But her super-move deals 10 damage to the target player and all their creatures - meaning any weaklings such as typical tokens will likely get wiped out. Insanity ensues.

The set also comes with a pair of utterly useless deck boxes. They look like typical starter deck boxes you usually throw away because... well, honestly, the cards won't fit if you put them in plastic sleeves. And of course, the set also come with a pair of inserts: the intro rules sheet (of which in my very short M:TG career already have 3 copies of), and an insert specific to this set listing the deck-lists and explaining how the Planeswalker cards work.

I can't wait to try playing either deck but I'm also keen on slipping Chandra into my usual Alara deck since I already play Jund - the red plane in that storyline.