jace is just better in every way. fills the same slot on the curve and is a win condition itself. chandra is a fine card, but its just outclassed on curve.

I concur, the Thing seems more cute than good. I’d jam a couple more Moons, the 22nd land, and the 4th Cryptic over it.

It’s probably a personal choice, some people tend to sort decks into decktypes by even the slightest change in the list, some sort decks into decktypes based on a key-core of few cards.
Sometimes people base decktypes on what they think has the most focus in the meta.

Whenever we’re spotlighting new builds like this, whether in videos or Deck of the Weeks, we like to make it super clear what the deck is before you click on it. We will most likely still be calling this deck Blue Moon in metagame updates and the like.

Also of note is that Disrupting Shoal can be hardcast in the lategame, which comes up pretty often in this deck compared to the tempo decks that Shoal has seen play in. You don’t mind overpaying for a counterspell at that point.