Commander Precons
167 precons across every set we cover: what each one does, how strong it is out of the box, how demanding it is to pilot, and where to buy it.
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Giada, Font of Hope · Mono-White (W)
Angel typal. Giada makes each Angel after the first enter bigger than the last, and taps for the white mana to cast it, so the deck adds a flier every turn and wins in the air.
Cast Angels and attack in the air. Few precons have fewer moving parts.
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Artifacts and Thopter tokens. Every artifact spell makes a 1/1 flier, the artifact count turns into power on cards like Master of Etherium, and Thopter Spy Network turns the fliers into cards.
Counting artifacts matters for half the deck, which is one thing to track.
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Zombies, sacrifice and recursion. Gisa converts one big creature into a pile of 2/2s, the Zombie lords make the pile lethal, and the graveyard keeps handing the bodies back.
Deep Zombie support and real recursion, the strongest of the five out of the box.
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Dragon typal with Treasure and cost reduction to get there early. Every nontoken Dragon after Lathliss brings a 5/5 Dragon token with it, and the deck's damage triggers close from the air.
Ramp, then cast a Dragon: the plan is simple, the mana costs are not.
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Big creatures and trample. Mana dorks and large bodies make Ghalta cost a fraction of twelve mana, then Overwhelming Stampede and Garruk's Uprising turn the board into one lethal attack.
Ramp into big creatures and swing, the most straightforward plan in the group.
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The evoke deck. Elementals cast cheaply as one-shot effects, then turned back into permanent threats. Ashling has been an Elemental fan favourite since the original block.
Evoke asks you to plan a turn ahead for the permanent version.
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The Blight deck, leaning on -1/-1 counters as a resource you spend deliberately rather than a downside you avoid.
Spending -1/-1 counters deliberately is a mindset shift from most decks.
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Hero typal and +1/+1 counters. Cast Heroes, let Cap lead the charge, and let Nick Fury dig your hand full of reinforcements.
Hero typal counters reward sequencing your Heroes.
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Artifacts and Vibranium tokens. Pile up artifacts and Shuri turns that pile into card advantage and a growing Black Panther threat.
Pile up artifacts, then cash them in.
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Villains, sacrifice, and connive. Built around the same Doctor Doom who rated a perfect 10/10 in Limited: indestructible, card-drawing, and backed by a pair of Doombots on arrival.
Opens with a dominant commander, the strongest of the four at launch.
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Noncreature spells and triggered-ability copying across four colors. The precon built to reward casting a pile of instants and sorceries and getting them twice.
Casting spells twice across four colors is the most demanding of the four to sequence.
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Graveyard Spirits, in the college that never lets anything stay buried.
Graveyard Spirits need some sequencing to chain.
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Big spells, cast as expressively and expensively as possible.
Big spells cast expressively, needing mana planning.
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X-spells and counters, the deck for players who like arithmetic in their combat math.
X-spells and counter math, the most demanding of the five.
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Sacrifice synergies and life-total manipulation.
Sacrifice timing paired with life-total swings.
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Aura politics: buffs and debuffs pointed wherever they do the most work.
Aura politics reward reading the table.
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Jeskai · WUR
Starships and card draw, drawing on the Picard and Janeway eras.
Starships and card draw: moderate upkeep.
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Landfall and away-team exploration, rooted in the original series.
Landfall and exploration: straightforward.
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Aggressive Warrior combat, exactly as advertised.
Aggressive combat, exactly as advertised.
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Artifact creatures built around Assimilate.
Assimilate triggers need some tracking.
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The deck's face commander, fronting a +1/+1 counters and Mutagen-token strategy.
Counters and Mutagen tokens: straightforward.
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The deck's second commander, and the reason Partner — Character select exists here: you can run it alongside Leonardo rather than choosing between them.
The backup half of a Partner pair: simple to add in.
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Energy, artificers and artifact creatures, with Saheeli Rai fronting it.
Energy counters need tracking alongside life.
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Zombies and discard, built around Eternalize, led by Temmet.
Eternalize recursion: straightforward Zombies and discard.
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Sacrifice lands, grow back stronger.
Sacrifice-and-regrow lands takes some sequencing.
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Counters across creatures and Spacecraft alike.
Counters spread across creatures and Spacecraft alike.
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Graveyard recursion, led by Terra, Herald of Hope and Celes, Rune Knight, built to bring creatures back.
Recursion loops need sequencing to chain well.
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The FFVII deck of the four.
Aggressive: straightforward.
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Puts counters on creatures and moves them around, growing threats with effects in the Hardened Scales mould.
Counters moving between creatures is the most math-heavy of the four.
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A full control deck around Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, rewarding multiple noncreature spells of mana value 3+ in a turn with drain and draw.
A real control shell, rewarding knowing when to hold up mana.
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Counters and Spirit tokens.
Counters and tokens: straightforward.
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Second-spell payoffs on an aggressive shell.
Second-spell payoffs reward sequencing your turn.
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Graveyard recursion and counters.
Graveyard recursion takes some practice.
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Token swarms and attack triggers.
Go wide, attack: straightforward.
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Big creatures, discounted big spells.
Discounted big spells hit hard, the strongest of the five.
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Gruul, leaning into big creatures and combat tricks that punish blocking.
Big Gruul creatures and combat tricks: straightforward beatdown.
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Jeskai, built around triggering abilities off your own spells and your opponents' turns alike.
Triggering off your own spells and opponents' turns alike takes some tracking.
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Bant group-hug, giving opponents cards and life to keep the table on your side.
Group hug is a political deck; giving the table cards and life is a strategy that can backfire.
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Golgari Squirrel tribal, generating tokens and mana to flood the board.
Tokens and mana flood the board fast, one of the format's best-regarded precons at launch.
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Simic, ramping into an oversized top end and blinking creatures for value.
Ramp into a big top end, with blink timing to track.
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Golgari sacrifice, draining opponents every time a creature of yours dies.
Sacrifice triggers reward careful death-count sequencing.
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Rakdos, casting big demons and other horrors for a discount off the graveyard.
Discounted demons off the graveyard hit hard, well regarded straight out of the box.
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Esper enchantments, surveilling into miracle triggers and blinking value creatures.
Surveil into miracle triggers is powerful but timing-dependent, the most demanding of the four.
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Red-green-white, and the Junk token deck. Equipment and Aura payoffs on top of the tokens.
Junk tokens into Equipment and Aura payoffs.
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Blue-black-green rad counters, milling the table and yourself and profiting from both.
Rad counters and mill hit yourself too, so it needs care.
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Red-white-black tokens and sacrifice, the most straightforwardly aggressive of the four.
Tokens and sacrifice, the most straightforwardly aggressive of the four.
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Blue-red-white artifacts and energy, and the deck that quietly brought energy back to Commander.
Energy counters brought back to Commander, with a little bookkeeping.
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Five-color Eldrazi, casting colorless spells for a discount.
Discounted colorless spells across five colors, a real ramp-into-giants plan.
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Jeskai energy, the deck that became a popular alternative to a full Eldrazi build.
Energy counters snowball fast; widely regarded as the strongest of the four out of the box.
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Jund graveyard recursion, casting spells straight out of the yard.
Casting from the graveyard rewards planning a turn ahead.
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Simic lands matter, copying permanents off a land-heavy board.
Copying permanents off a lands-matter shell takes some sequencing.
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One of the four Karlov Manor decks.
Political accusations reward reading the table.
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Clues and card draw, as the name promises.
Clues into card draw: simple to pilot.
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A graveyard-leaning deck fronted by Mirko.
Graveyard value takes some sequencing.
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The face-down deck, built around disguise and morph-style plays.
Face-down, morph-style bluffing: the hardest of the four to play well.
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Izzet spellslinger, discounting and copying instants and sorceries.
Copying and discounting spells rewards sequencing your turn.
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Sultai theft, stealing and casting spells out of opponents' libraries.
Casting stolen cards from an opponent's library needs some reading of the table.
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Mardu outlaws, the most straightforwardly aggressive of the four.
Straightforward outlaw aggro, well regarded straight out of the box.
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Naya Deserts and lands matter, turning nonbasics into a payoff engine.
Deserts and lands matter: simple to pilot.
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Colorless Eldrazi and cast triggers.
Colorless ramp into big casts.
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Enchantments and the graveyard.
Recursion loops need a little bookkeeping.
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The planeswalker-matters deck.
Loyalty math across several walkers at once.
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Slivers, and the reason many players bought the set.
Every Sliver buffs the rest, the deck most people bought the set for.
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Green-white-blue, on tokens and historic spells.
Tokens and historic spells: straightforward.
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White-blue-red, and the deck built on time travel.
Time-travel loops reward careful sequencing, a fan favorite.
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Blue-red-green, on counters and untapping.
Counters and untapping ask you to track a lot at once.
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Blue-black-red, and the villainous choice deck.
Villainous choice adds a decision on the way in.
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Naya, built on the set's backup mechanic to stack buffs onto one attacker.
Backup triggers reward sequencing your buffs.
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Esper Knights, aggressive and go-wide.
Aggressive and go-wide: straightforward.
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Jeskai, leaning on convoke and token production.
Convoke tokens: simple to pilot.
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Orzhov incubate, turning Phyrexian threats loose on the table.
Incubate tokens need a beat before they pay off.
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Temur artifacts, built around the set's machine theme.
Artifact synergies stack up over a few turns.
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The poison and proliferate deck, and the one that plays to the set's identity.
Poison adds a second clock to track alongside life.
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Tokens and Equipment, built around For Mirrodin! and going wide.
For Mirrodin! tokens go wide.
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Aggressive human and horse tribal.
Aggressive tribal: straightforward.
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Elves and the set's blue-green value engine.
A real value engine, one of the stronger four.
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Hobbits, Food and the Ring.
The Ring tempts you adds a decision every turn.
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Amass, Orcs and going tall with one enormous Army.
Amass one enormous Army: simple and effective.
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Pirates, treasure and the graveyard.
Treasure into graveyard value.
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Vampires and sacrifice.
Sacrifice timing takes some practice.
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Merfolk and explore.
Explore triggers: simple card selection.
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Dinosaurs, ramp and discover.
Ramp into big Dinosaurs, one of the stronger four.
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Green-white, built on Roles and Auras and making one creature enormous.
Stack Roles on one creature: straightforward.
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Blue-black Faeries, flash and control.
Flash and flyers ask for some patience.
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Legendary creatures matter, fitting for an anniversary set.
Legendary matters: a simple payoff to build toward.
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Five-color, built on painlands and domain.
Five colors through painlands means managing your own life total.
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Vehicles and Equipment, and the deck that plays to reconfigure.
Reconfigure timing rewards gearing up before combat.
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Counters, Auras and modified, going tall on one creature.
Modified triggers stack up on one big threat.
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Mono-black, and the artifact and reanimation deck.
Reanimator shell around indestructible artifacts, one of the stronger precons ever printed.
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Green-blue-red, built on ravenous and going big.
Big ravenous threats, well regarded straight out of the box.
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White-blue-black, on tokens and taxes.
Tokens and taxes: grindy rather than fast.
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Blue-black-red, on cascade and chaos.
Cascade rewards knowing your own deck's curve.
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Shield counters and defensive value.
Shield counters protect but don't close games fast.
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Connive and card selection.
Connive rewards choosing what to keep each turn.
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Casualty and copied spells.
Casualty and copied spells ask for careful sacrifice math.
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Blitz, and the most popular of the five.
Blitz aggression, the most popular of the five.
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Tokens and going wide.
Go wide: straightforward.
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Artifact aggression, tokens and going wide.
Artifact tokens go wide.
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Artifacts and token copies of what you cast.
Token copies of what you cast add real value.
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White-green-blue Auras and Equipment.
Stack Auras and gear: straightforward voltron.
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White-blue-black, built on venture and the graveyard.
Venture and graveyard triggers ask you to track two things at once.
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Red-green Dragons.
Big Dragons, big attacks.
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Black-red exile and Treasure, and the most played of the four by some distance.
Treasure and exile card advantage, the most played of the four.
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White-black, and a political deck by construction: Breena feeds counters and cards to whoever is not attacking her.
A political deck: attacking Breena feeds the table.
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Blue-red spells and magecraft, paying you in Treasure and damage for casting big instants and sorceries.
Big spells pay off twice, one of the stronger five.
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Black-green lifegain and life loss, converting swings in your total into +1/+1 counters.
Swings in life total become permanent counters.
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Red-white artifacts, exiling artifacts from your graveyard to make two token copies of them.
Exile and copy artifacts back out of your own graveyard.
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Green-blue token doubling, and the most reprinted-into-other-decks of the five.
Double your tokens, the most reprinted-into-other-decks of the five.
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Black-red Vampires and Blood tokens.
Blood tokens filter into whatever the hand needs.
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White-blue Spirits, flying and going wide.
Fly over, go wide: straightforward.
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Green-white Humans and +1/+1 counters, built on coven.
Counters go up; coven checks are easy to hit.
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Blue-black Zombies and decayed tokens.
Recurring Zombies off decayed tokens takes some tracking.
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Black-green Elves, going wide and draining with Lathril's tap ability.
Go wide, tap Lathril to drain.
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White-blue, built on foretell and cards exiled face down.
Tracking foretold cards face-down adds bookkeeping.
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Jeskai, and the first precon built on cycling. Gavi turns the second cycle each turn into a free Cat Bird.
Cycling triggers reward careful sequencing.
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Temur instants and sorceries. Kalamax copies the first instant you cast each turn while he's tapped, which makes attacking first a real line.
Copying spells off Kalamax is strong but timing-dependent.
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Abzan keyword counters, assembled out of your graveyard rather than off the battlefield.
Counters assembled from the graveyard, with several moving parts.
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Sultai mutate, and the deck that gives the mechanic the time it needs to pay off.
Mutate stacking is fiddly to track at the table.
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Mardu Humans, the most straightforward of the five and the easiest to play out of the box.
Straightforward tribal aggro, the easiest of the five.
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Boros Equipment and Auras, drawing a card for each thing attached to Wyleth when he attacks.
Stack gear on one creature: a simple game plan.
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Simic landfall and ramp, and the more played of the two by a distance.
Ramp into a huge draw engine, the stronger of the two.
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The go-wide half, and the one that most rewards being paired with another aggressive color.
Go-wide gags, pairing best with another aggressive half.
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Card draw and interference, including several jokes that ask you to do something with the physical card.
Card draw and dexterity jokes.
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Removal and sacrifice, played straight enough that the un-cards land harder.
Removal and sacrifice, played straight enough to land.
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Damage, dice and chaos, which is where most of the set's dexterity cards live.
Damage, dice and chaos.
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Big creatures and mana, the half that turns any pairing into a beatdown deck.
Big creatures turn any pairing into a beatdown.
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Naya landfall, and the deck that turns your lands into the creatures.
Play lands, get value: a simple engine.
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Dimir Rogues, milling opponents as a means to an end rather than as the win condition.
Mill as a means to an end rarely closes games alone.
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Blue-black-green, and the morph deck.
Morph bluffs and face-down math reward careful sequencing.
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White-blue-red, built on flashback.
Cast it twice: straightforward value from flashback.
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Black-red madness, and the most played of the four.
Discard-to-cast is a simple loop once you've seen it once.
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Red-green-white tokens and populate.
Go wide, then populate your biggest token.
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Ninjutsu Yuriko in for free off an unblocked attacker, then mill opponents for damage every time a Ninja connects.
Ninjutsu timing is the whole skill of the deck, and it's a famously strong one.
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A planeswalker commander that loops lands back from the graveyard, building toward a board wipe finish.
A planeswalker commander built around a real graveyard-lands plan.
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A planeswalker commander that protects your permanents with Auras and can mill them all back at once.
A planeswalker commander leaning on Auras, with real payoff once the graveyard fills up.
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Attacking with Yennett can cast a free spell straight off the top of your library, if its cost is odd.
Building a deck around odd mana values is a real constraint to draft around.
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Bruna reattaches every Aura in your graveyard and on the battlefield the moment it attacks or blocks.
An Auras voltron plan, and reads more replayable than it looks at first.
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Every Wizard you cast can be copied for a turn, which multiplies enter-the-battlefield triggers quickly.
Copying Wizards for value stacks up fast and needs careful sequencing.
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Every Vampire you cast makes another Vampire, and attacking with Edgar counters up the whole team.
One of the most iconic tribal commanders ever printed, and straightforward to pilot.
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Cats you control hit harder in combat, and Arahbo itself pumps another Cat every turn.
Cat tribal with a simple combat trigger to track.
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A five-color Dragon tribal payoff: attacking Dragons draw cards and can put a permanent straight into play.
Five colors of Dragons is a real manabase commitment before the payoff shows up.
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A hexproof flying Dragon that shrinks the defense whenever a Dragon attacks.
A control-leaning Dragon deck, patient rather than fast.
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A Partner commander that recurs artifacts out of the graveyard whenever it connects in combat.
A Partner commander, so it shares the seat with whatever it's paired with.
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A Partner commander that makes a Saproling token for every point of combat damage it deals.
A Partner commander, straightforward tokens off combat damage.
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A Partner commander that draws a card whenever an opponent casts their second spell in a turn.
A Partner commander, simple to read once you know what triggers it.
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A Partner commander that gains life equal to a creature's toughness whenever it connects.
A Partner commander, straightforward lifegain off combat damage.
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A Partner commander that hands double strike and lifelink to whichever creature you're building around.
A Partner commander built for one creature to carry the whole game.
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Every enchantment you cast adds an experience counter, which grows a token sized off how many you've got.
Experience counters only go up, but building the enchantment count takes patience.
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Cast instants and sorceries straight off the top of your library, and copy the ones you find there.
Playing off the top of your library changes how you sequence every turn.
Shop on TCGplayer →BG · Reanimator
Creatures dying earns experience counters, which decide how big a creature you can bring back each turn.
One of the best-known reanimator commanders, but tracking experience counters takes bookkeeping.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →RW · Damage Doubling
Damage to opponents doubles and damage to you is halved, which swings combat math hard in your favor.
Doubling damage out and halving it coming in is brutally simple once she's down.
Shop on TCGplayer →GU · Counters
Small creatures earn experience counters that get dumped onto one creature at combat, all at once.
Small creatures build experience, which then super-charges one big swing.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →W · Equipment
One of the first planeswalkers legal as a commander, making Kor Soldiers and moving Equipment onto them.
A mono-white planeswalker commander, straightforward Soldiers-and-gear plan.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →U · Card Selection
A mono-blue planeswalker commander that filters the top of your library and untaps permanents on demand.
Filter your draws and untap what you need, a calm mono-blue plan.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →B · Drain
A mono-black planeswalker commander that drains the table a point at a time, or trades life for a 5/5 flier.
Straightforward drain, cash it in for a Demon when you're ready.
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A mono-red planeswalker commander built to fill the graveyard with artifacts and bring them back.
Looping artifacts out of the graveyard takes some setup to pay off.
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A mono-green planeswalker commander that makes mana creatures and eventually refills your hand off them.
Mana dorks and a card-draw payoff, an easy plan to pilot.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →BUW · Lifegain
Every point of lifegain can be spent to draw a card and drain an opponent for one.
Life goes up, cards come down, a simple engine to keep running.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →BRU · Wheel
Every player draws an extra card each turn, and Nekusar punishes opponents for drawing at all.
Everyone draws extra, so the damage triggers can point either way.
Shop on TCGplayer →BGR · Sacrifice
Casting Prossh makes a pile of token Kobolds built to be sacrificed for value.
Cast it for tokens, then sacrifice them for value, an easy loop to run.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →GRW · Counters
A flexible counters engine: put them on Marath, spread them around, or cash them in for damage or a token.
Three modes off one pool of counters is a real decision every combat.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →GUW · Tempo
Combat damage lets you tap or untap anything on the board, which is a lot of tempo to manage.
Tapping down blockers and untapping your own lands rewards careful sequencing.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →BGW · Counters
Sacrifice creatures for counters, spend counters for tokens, and let the loop feed itself.
Sacrifice and counter triggers loop together, which takes a beat to see.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →RUW · Group Hug
Gift opponents your own permanents to draw cards and gain life off the ones that are bad for them.
Giving away permanents for value is a mindset most tables aren't used to.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →BGU · Reanimator
Exile two creatures from any graveyard and enter as a copy of one, sized off the other's power.
Sizing it right off two graveyard creatures takes some math before it resolves.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →BRW · Big Creatures
Attacking with Kaalia puts an Angel, Demon or Dragon straight from your hand onto the battlefield.
Attack, cheat in a huge flier, straightforward once it connects.
See the full decklist → Shop on TCGplayer →GRU · Copy
Copy your own creatures as they enter and your instants and sorceries as you cast them.
Two separate copy triggers to track, on creatures and on spells alike.
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