Overview

Apparitions in TCG

Chandra have already twenty Planeswalker cards (+ One for the 2016 Planeswalkers decks team as an Heroes of the Realm reward).

• Chandra Nalaar is the first edition showing Chandra as a Planeswalker, She did what a classic red-aggro card does : deal damages to target player or Planeswalker.
• Chandra, Acolyte of Flame ilustrates the version of Chandra when she was the apprentice of Jaya Ballard on Keral Keep monastery, here she is a polyvalent mono-red aggro card that allows to put Elemental tokens, cast spells from graveyard and improve loyalty counters on planneswalkers
• Chandra, Novice Pyromancer illustrates the young ages of Chandra, few times after she left the Keral Keep monastery and starts to travel between planes. Here Chandra surprisingly turn Elementals tribal gameplay and give red mana values, it's a way to illustrate the Elemental summoning learning provided by the Keral Keep
• Chandra, Flamecaller
• Chandra Ablaze ilustrates the version of Chandra when she joined the Gatewatch on Zendikar she pushed to discard cards in order to use her (-7) to cast spells from the graveyard.
• Chandra, Bold Pyromancer illustrates the times when Chandra worked with the Gatewatch on Dominaria, to find and kill the demon Belzenlok. This card turns back Chandra to a red-mana agro gameplay, dispensing damages to opponents in each ability.
• Chandra, Flame's Catalyst
• Chandra, Flame's Fury
• Chandra, the Firebrand Is also a red-agro card, allowing to inflict damages to opponent's creatures. But her second ability is interesting as it turns her to an instant-caster gameplay, allowing to double the effects of an instant or a sorcery spell.
• Chandra, Pyrogenius
• Chandra, Gremlin Wrangler
• Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• Chandra, Roaring Flame
• Chandra, Fire Artisan
• Chandra, Pyromaster
• Chandra, Heart of Fire
• Chandra, Dressed to Kill
• Candra, Awakened Inferno
• Chandra, Hope's Beacon

Personality

Chandra is a particularly gifted pyromancer, a discipline that allows to manipulate fire spells, and she is not known for her subtlety. Using fire to resolve whatever situation she might be in.

She values ingenuity and improvisation with her magic. She is passionate, impulsive, and doesn't much like authority, as typifies characters tightly bound to red mana. Even though Chandra is proud of her independent nature, she also recognizes the volatile nature of her inner fire. She studied under Jaya to learn better control over her pyromancy.

She can also conjure some fiery creatures – anything from adorable little embercats to massive flaming elementals and phoenixes. Although hotheaded, she cares deeply for those she calls friends and takes one's death as a personal failure on her part.

History

Chandra was born on Kaladesh, with a "mother who was strict, a father who was gentle, two sisters who [she] hated, and an older brother who [she] adored" in her own words. Her brother was eventually killed in a war. Chandra began to practice and play with her newfound fire abilities to pass the time, and found that her fire talent came to her naturally. However, on Kaladesh, fire magic was strictly banned, and her parents pursued many ends in an attempt to "cure" their daughter of her powers. Knowing that the Consulate would arrest Chandra and her family for using fire magic, they left Ghirapur when she was eleven and went to another town that was smaller than their home to avoid attention. In an attempt to scare off her parents, she set off a huge blast of fire that caught several of the village huts on fire, before running away to the mountains. In her absence, the police of a temple on her plane rounded up the village, believing the people of the village to be a group of fire-magic-practicing rebels, as they did not believe that one person could cause such destruction. Chandra returned in time to see her family burned, her mother crying for her daughters to be released, and fought against the soldiers until the entire village had burned to death, at which point she surrendered. She was forced onto her knees, her head held back, and a blade swung to her throat, her punishment immediate execution. This traumatic moment ignited her planeswalker spark, sending her to Regatha.

In Regatha, Chandra met with another Planeswalker named Jaya Ballard. In the mountains of the plane Jaya built a monastery dispensing both spiritual, magical and discipline knowledge about Pyromancy, and self-control of the inner forces allowing to use it. The first interactions between the two Planeswalkers was quite explosives, but after a few days of thinking, Chandra accepted that she needed to improve the control over her feelings.

She started to study on the Keral Keep monastery, being granted by the access of amount of scrolls and the Jaya's knowledge. During her learning, Chandra was sent to the plane of Kephalai to find and stole the Dragon Scroll, a powerful artefact granting access to a spell masterized by Ugin a dragon ancestor. Here she attracted the anger of some powerful politics, who engaged Jace Beleren to find her and erase her memory. Jace finally followed Chandra's track until Regatha where he confronted and fought her, leaving after his mission completed unknowing Chandra already given the scroll to the scribes in the monastery who were making copies of it before Jace arrived.

A few months after, Chandra found herself entangled in political intrigues. A religious order named the Order of Heliud and white-mana aligned started to spread across the plane and enforce their power over it. Banishing witchcraft, Druidism and Fire Magic. A war started between the Keral Keep and their allied forest tribes against the Order and the Zinara city armies, who were asserted to the Order of Helliud. After few skirmishes, a price was put on Chandra's head, so mother Luti head of the Keral Keep at that time sent Chandra on a mission to take back the Dragon Scroll Jace had reclaimed from them a while ago.

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