Awesome art in comparison to Nalaar, too. The fury! The spite! It turns us all on.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(1/14/2010 6:53:03 AM)
Ultimate + Fire Servant/Furnace of Rath + Pyromancer's Ascension. Even if you only used a lightning bolt and a shock, if you cast both, the Lightning Bolt is doubled and then twinned, dealing 12 damage, and Shock gets the same treatment, quadrupling the damage and coming out to a clean 20 damage with two spells. If you're running the right kind of deck, even if your Fire Servant gets blasted or your Ascension gets fizzled you can still destroy an enemy with full life. Good card and an amazing combo.
Posted By:
TheLionsMane
(5/19/2011 3:32:20 PM)
No one can deny that the new planeswalkers are becoming much more specialized with time. This has given place to a lot of critics against Chandra Ablaze, stating that Chandra Nalaar is much better because she could be included in practically any deck that runs red.
It is quite evident that this version of Chandra is much more powerful than the last. Although its CMC went up by 1, and its loyalty counters down by 1, this Chandra is much more flexible than Nalaar. Nalaar first ability pings for a miserable one damage, and the second one requires taking counters off her equal to the amount of damage you want to do, which is very costly should you want to take down a toughness 3 or more. Her ultimate is pretty amazing, and only takes 2 turns since she is out, but still, it is kinda useless should the opponent bear no creatures.
Ablaze, on the other side, can do up to 4 damage with her +1 ability, although this requires discarding a red card. However, lots of mechanics can be taken advan... (see all)
Posted By:
ClericNacho
(2/24/2010 1:14:56 PM)
Works great with Chandra's Phoenix. "Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return Chandra's Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand." Discard the Phoenix, hit an opponent for 4, Chandra's Phoenix comes back to your hand.
Posted By:
Sage_Phoenix
(6/8/2011 8:39:05 PM)
You'll never run out of great cards so long as you run Geth's Grimoire. I love the newer, more specialized planeswalkers. Although Liliana Vess does work well in conjunction with her.
Classy, as always. Chandra, I hope you never have to leave standard.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(12/13/2010 1:32:45 AM)
Apparently it was discovered that one of her parents is in fact a nuclear missile.
Posted By:
Melanchior
(11/9/2011 2:56:15 PM)
Ah, this card is a Timmy's dream. It has the kind of ultimate where you could annihilate entire TABLES of players.
Board wipes? Card tutors? Draw spells? Discard? Recursion? Blasts to the face? This girl does it all when she gets off.
Posted By:
Polychromatic
(5/9/2011 3:29:37 PM)
Hopefully they'll decide to reprint this version of her instead of her old Chandra Nalaar card in the next core set. Though the old Chandra was a strong card, I prefer this version as it allows you some extra utility as she does something other than damage.
Her second ability actually saved me three times at the prerelease. The first game it saved me because it prevented my opponent from playing a Day of Judgment that would've surely been the end of me, and the other two times I didn't have a hand as red never really has a hand in the late-game, and it let me draw a few extra cards, while thinning everyone else and screwing with their tempo a bit. All Chandra Nalaar does is damage, and even though she does a lot of it, I still don't like her as much as this card. As stated earlier her second ability won me three games, and though I never used her ultimate at the prerelease, I did use it afterwards at a few casual games, and I found it to be m... (see all)
Posted By:
Omniance
(9/30/2009 10:22:53 PM)
Burning Vengeance
Posted By:
pedrodyl
(12/13/2011 11:36:15 PM)
She has the most nuance and synergy of any Chandra, but her high mana cost is pretty punishing. Overall, I prefer Chandra, the Firebrand for actual play, but I do appreciate what they're going for with this card. 4/5
Posted By:
SkaerKrow
(12/22/2011 7:56:00 AM)