Every Commander Precon, Rated & Searchable

Blood in the Water

Releases Feb 5, 2027

Colors and commander not announced yet

One of four Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Commander decks, $49.99 MSRP or $79.99 as an all-foil Premium Edition. Wizards has named it but not shown its colors, commanders or decklist yet.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Merfolk Regiment

Releases Feb 5, 2027

Colors and commander not announced yet

One of four Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Commander decks, $49.99 MSRP or $79.99 as an all-foil Premium Edition. Wizards has named it but not shown its colors, commanders or decklist yet.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Seal the Deal

Releases Feb 5, 2027

Colors and commander not announced yet

One of four Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Commander decks, $49.99 MSRP or $79.99 as an all-foil Premium Edition. Wizards has named it but not shown its colors, commanders or decklist yet.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Terrors of the Abyss

Releases Feb 5, 2027

Colors and commander not announced yet

One of four Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Commander decks, $49.99 MSRP or $79.99 as an all-foil Premium Edition. Wizards has named it but not shown its colors, commanders or decklist yet.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Gods of Asgard

Releases Apr 9, 2027

Thor on the box · Naya (RGW)

Power matters and Equipment. Wizards' pitch: build up creatures with power 4 or more and hold the greatest power at the table.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Lords of Hel

Releases Apr 9, 2027

Hela on the box · Rakdos (BR)

Tokens and sacrifice. Wizards pitches Hela throwing undead waves at the table, with token makers to keep the sacrifice outlets fed.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Midnight Sons

Releases Apr 9, 2027

Blade on the box · Orzhov (WB)

Vampires and life gain. The box reads "Gain Life | Vampires," an Orzhov drain shell led by Marvel's vampire hunters.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Strange Academy

Releases Apr 9, 2027

Doctor Strange on the box · Esper (WUB)

Spellcasters and blink. The box reads "Spellcasters | Blink," so expect creatures that leave and re-enter for repeat value.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Four Commander decks

Releases Jun 4, 2027

Names, colors and commanders not announced yet

Four Commander decks are confirmed for Kamigawa: Titanbreach, the 2027 pattern for every set. Wizards hasn't named them, given their colors or shown a commander yet; this entry turns into one tile per deck when it does.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Four Commander decks

Releases Oct 1, 2027

Names, colors and commanders not announced yet

Four Commander decks are confirmed for Zhalfir, the 2027 pattern for every set. Wizards hasn't named them, given their colors or shown a commander yet; this entry turns into one tile per deck when it does.

Not rated yet: we rate it once the full decklist is out.

Calling All Angels

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.

Keen Engineering

Sai, Master Thopterist · Mono-Blue (U)

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.

Wretched Ranks

Ghoulcaller Gisa · Mono-Black (B)

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.

Reign of Dragons

Lathliss, Dragon Queen · Mono-Red (R)

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.

Tramplesaurus Rex

Ghalta, Primal Hunger · Mono-Green (G)

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.

Ashling

Evoke

The evoke deck. Elementals cast cheaply as one-shot effects, then turned back into permanent threats. Ashling has been an Elemental fan favorite since the original block.

Evoke asks you to plan a turn ahead for the permanent version.

Auntie Ool

Blight

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.

Avengers Assemble

Captain America, Team Leader & Nick Fury · Jeskai (WUR)

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.

Wakanda Forever

T'Challa, the Black Panther · Selesnya (GW)

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.

Doom Prevails

Doctor Doom, King of Latveria · Grixis (UBR)

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.

The Fantastic Four

Mister Fantastic · Four-Color

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.

Multiverse Reforged

Jace, Multiverse Architect · Four-Color (WUBR)

Polymorph. Every creature in the deck costs six or more, so Jace's −3 and the deck's reveal-until-a-creature spells turn a cheap token into a six-drop at worst and an eight-drop at best.

The polymorph never misses, but the uncastable top end and four-color mana make hands hard to keep and turns hard to plan.

Goblin Storm

Zada, Hedron Grinder · Mono-Red (R)

Goblins and storm. Zada copies a spell that targets only it for each other creature you control, so a board of Goblin tokens turns one pump spell into a team pump, and Grapeshot and Empty the Warrens close the game.

Explosive when the turn comes together, but sequencing rituals, tokens and Zada copies is a real puzzle.

Hatsune Miku

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice · Selesnya (GW)

Lifegain. Trostani gains life off every creature that enters, and Archangel of Thune and Aetherflux Reservoir turn that life into counters and damage.

Trostani gains life on its own, so the engine runs without much help from you.

Odds and Ends

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign · Esper (WUB)

Odd mana values. Yennett casts the top card of your library for free when its mana value is odd, so the deck leans on odd costs, with Approach of the Second Sun at seven as the big hit.

Setting up the top of your library before every attack, plus a pile of unusual cards to read.

Quintorius, History Chaser

Lorehold Spirit · Boros

Graveyard Spirits, in the college that never lets anything stay buried.

Graveyard Spirits need some sequencing to chain.

Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Prismari Artistry · Izzet

Big spells, cast as expressively and expensively as possible.

Big spells cast expressively, needing mana planning.

Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Quandrix Unlimited · Simic

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.

Dina, Essence Brewer

Witherbloom Pestilence · Golgari

Sacrifice synergies and life-total manipulation.

Sacrifice timing paired with life-total swings.

Killian, Decisive Mentor

Silverquill Influence · Orzhov

Aura politics: buffs and debuffs pointed wherever they do the most work.

Aura politics reward reading the table.

Federation Fleet

Jeskai · WUR · Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary

"Seek out card draw, charge your starships." Picard costs four and draws a card whenever another historic permanent with mana value 3 or more enters under your control. His seek out trigger, on your second draw each turn, puts a +1/+1 counter on another creature and two charge counters on a Spacecraft.

Twelve second-draw triggers, draw that feeds opponents too, and charge counters on five ships to track.

Landing Party

Bant · GWU · Commander Spock

"Strange new worlds, trigger landfall." Whenever Commander Spock enters or attacks, you reveal your top card and may cast it free if its mana value is no more than your number of differently named lands. A land goes onto the battlefield tapped instead. Starship Enterprise, a Commander-set Spacecraft, gets four charge counters on each landfall.

Ramp and landfall feed free Spock casts, the deepest engine of the four, if you count your land names.

Klingon Fury

Mardu · RWB · Worf, Defiant Commander

"Show your aggression." Worf makes a 2/1 Klingon Warrior with haste when he enters. His battlefront trigger exiles one card from the top of your library for each opponent you attacked this turn, and you may play them until the end of your next turn.

Attack every opponent each turn and the battlefront cards scale on their own: straightforward.

We Are the Borg

Esper · WUB · The Borg Queen

"Grow your ranks, assimilate the enemy." The Borg Queen gives your artifact creatures +2/+2. Whenever she enters or attacks, an opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until a creature card, and you assimilate it. Locutus of Borg, also in the Commander set, makes a 1/1 Borg token whenever one of your artifact creatures connects.

Stacked artifact anthems and a one-sided wipe hit hard, but the Queen costs seven.

Leonardo, the Balance

“Turtle Power!” · Face commander

The deck's face commander, fronting a +1/+1 counters and Mutagen-token strategy.

Counters and Mutagen tokens: straightforward.

Heroes in a Half Shell

“Turtle Power!” · Backup commander

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.

Living Energy

Temur · GUR · Saheeli Rai

Energy, artificers and artifact creatures, with Saheeli Rai fronting it.

Energy counters need tracking alongside life.

Eternal Might

Esper · WUB · Temmet

Zombies and discard, built around Eternalize, led by Temmet.

Eternalize recursion: straightforward Zombies and discard.

World Shaper

Hearthhull, the Worldseed · Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Sacrifice lands, grow back stronger.

Sacrifice-and-regrow lands takes some sequencing.

Counter Intelligence

Kilo, Apogee Mind · Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Counters across creatures and Spacecraft alike.

Counters spread across creatures and Spacecraft alike.

Revival Trance

Final Fantasy VI · WBR

Graveyard recursion, led by Terra, Herald of Hope and Celes, Rune Knight, built to bring creatures back.

Recursion loops need sequencing to chain well.

Limit Break

Final Fantasy VII

The FFVII deck of the four.

Aggressive: straightforward.

Counter Blitz

Final Fantasy X · Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

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.

Scions & Spellcraft

Final Fantasy XIV · Esper WUB

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.

Everyone's Invited!

Morophon, the Boundless · Five-Color (WUBRG)

Changelings. Most of the creatures are every creature type, so Morophon's discount and +1/+1 reach the whole deck and typal cards like Kindred Discovery count everything.

Five colors behind a seven-mana commander make the mana the hard part.

Abzan Armor

WBG · Endure

Counters and Spirit tokens.

Counters and tokens: straightforward.

Jeskai Striker

WUR · Flurry

Second-spell payoffs on an aggressive shell.

Second-spell payoffs reward sequencing your turn.

Sultai Arisen

UBG · Renew

Graveyard recursion and counters.

Graveyard recursion takes some practice.

Mardu Surge

RWB · Mobilize

Token swarms and attack triggers.

Go wide, attack: straightforward.

Temur Roar

GUR · Harmonize

Big creatures, discounted big spells.

Discounted big spells hit hard, the strongest of the five.

Animated Army

Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Gruul, leaning into big creatures and combat tricks that punish blocking.

Big Gruul creatures and combat tricks: straightforward beatdown.

Family Matters

Zinnia, Valley's Voice

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.

Peace Offering

Ms. Bumbleflower

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.

Squirreled Away

Hazel of the Rootbloom

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.

Jump Scare!

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Simic, ramping into an oversized top end and blinking creatures for value.

Ramp into a big top end, with blink timing to track.

Death Toll

Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Golgari sacrifice, draining opponents every time a creature of yours dies.

Sacrifice triggers reward careful death-count sequencing.

Endless Punishment

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

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.

Miracle Worker

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

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.

Scrappy Survivors

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

Red-green-white, and the Junk token deck. Equipment and Aura payoffs on top of the tokens.

Junk tokens into Equipment and Aura payoffs.

Mutant Menace

The Wise Mothman

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.

Hail, Caesar

Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Red-white-black tokens and sacrifice, the most straightforwardly aggressive of the four.

Tokens and sacrifice, the most straightforwardly aggressive of the four.

Science!

Dr. Madison Li

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.

Eldrazi Incursion

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

Five-color Eldrazi, casting colorless spells for a discount.

Discounted colorless spells across five colors, a real ramp-into-giants plan.

Creative Energy

Satya, Aetherflux Genius

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.

Graveyard Overdrive

Disa the Restless

Jund graveyard recursion, casting spells straight out of the yard.

Casting from the graveyard rewards planning a turn ahead.

Tricky Terrain

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Simic lands matter, copying permanents off a land-heavy board.

Copying permanents off a lands-matter shell takes some sequencing.

Blame Game

Commander precon

One of the four Karlov Manor decks.

Political accusations reward reading the table.

Deep Clue Sea

Commander precon

Clues and card draw, as the name promises.

Clues into card draw: simple to pilot.

Revenant Recon

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

A graveyard-leaning deck fronted by Mirko.

Graveyard value takes some sequencing.

Deadly Disguise

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

The face-down deck, built around disguise and morph-style plays.

Face-down, morph-style bluffing: the hardest of the four to play well.

Quick Draw

Stella Lee, Wild Card

Izzet spellslinger, discounting and copying instants and sorceries.

Copying and discounting spells rewards sequencing your turn.

Grand Larceny

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Sultai theft, stealing and casting spells out of opponents' libraries.

Casting stolen cards from an opponent's library needs some reading of the table.

Most Wanted

Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

Mardu outlaws, the most straightforwardly aggressive of the four.

Straightforward outlaw aggro, well regarded straight out of the box.

Desert Bloom

Yuma, Proud Protector

Naya Deserts and lands matter, turning nonbasics into a payoff engine.

Deserts and lands matter: simple to pilot.

Raining Cats and Dogs

Rin and Seri, Inseparable · Naya (RGW)

Cats and Dogs. Every Cat you cast makes a Dog token and every Dog makes a Cat, and Rin and Seri taps to deal damage for your Dogs and gain life for your Cats.

Every Cat or Dog makes the other, so the board grows from one simple rule.

20 Ways to Win

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin · Five-Color (WUBRG)

Alternate win conditions. The deck carries twenty ways to win, from Approach of the Second Sun and Felidar Sovereign to Maze's End and its Gates, and Go-Shintai returns the enchantment ones from your graveyard.

Twenty win conditions and few ways to protect any of them, so knowing which one to chase each game is the skill.

Eldrazi Unbound

Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Colorless Eldrazi and cast triggers.

Colorless ramp into big casts.

Enduring Enchantments

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Enchantments and the graveyard.

Recursion loops need a little bookkeeping.

Planeswalker Party

Commodore Guff

The planeswalker-matters deck.

Loyalty math across several walkers at once.

Sliver Swarm

Sliver Gravemother

Slivers, and the reason many players bought the set.

Every Sliver buffs the rest, the deck most people bought the set for.

Blast from the Past

First through Eighth Doctors

Green-white-blue, on tokens and historic spells.

Tokens and historic spells: straightforward.

Timey-Wimey

Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler

White-blue-red, and the deck built on time travel.

Time-travel loops reward careful sequencing, a fan favorite.

Paradox Power

Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond

Blue-red-green, on counters and untapping.

Counters and untapping ask you to track a lot at once.

Masters of Evil

Davros and the Master

Blue-black-red, and the villainous choice deck.

Villainous choice adds a decision on the way in.

Call for Backup

Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener

Naya, built on the set's backup mechanic to stack buffs onto one attacker.

Backup triggers reward sequencing your buffs.

Cavalry Charge

Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Esper Knights, aggressive and go-wide.

Aggressive and go-wide: straightforward.

Divine Convocation

Kasla, the Broken Halo

Jeskai, leaning on convoke and token production.

Convoke tokens: simple to pilot.

Growing Threat

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Orzhov incubate, turning Phyrexian threats loose on the table.

Incubate tokens need a beat before they pay off.

Tinker Time

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

Temur artifacts, built around the set's machine theme.

Artifact synergies stack up over a few turns.

Corrupting Influence

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

The poison and proliferate deck, and the one that plays to the set's identity.

Poison adds a second clock to track alongside life.

Rebellion Rising

Neyali, Suns' Vanguard

Tokens and Equipment, built around For Mirrodin! and going wide.

For Mirrodin! tokens go wide.

From Cute to Brute

Esika, God of the Tree · Five-Color (WUBRG)

Double-faced cards. Transforming creatures, flip-walkers, Pathways and Ixalan's flip lands fill the deck, and Esika's back face, The Prismatic Bridge, puts a creature or planeswalker from your library onto the battlefield every upkeep.

Two faces on most cards means more text to read and a choice at nearly every land drop.

Angels: They're Just Like Us but Cooler and with Wings

Gisela, the Broken Blade · Mono-White (W)

Angel typal. Gisela and Bruna, the Fading Light meld into Brisela, and the rest of the deck is Angels and payoffs like Archangel of Thune and Righteous Valkyrie.

Cast Angels and attack in the air, with the meld as a bonus rather than the plan.

Riders of Rohan

Eowyn, Shieldmaiden

Aggressive human and horse tribal.

Aggressive tribal: straightforward.

Elven Council

Galadriel of Lothlorien

Elves and the set's blue-green value engine.

A real value engine, one of the stronger four.

Food and Fellowship

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Hobbits, Food and the Ring.

The Ring tempts you adds a decision every turn.

The Hosts of Mordor

Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Amass, Orcs and going tall with one enormous Army.

Amass one enormous Army: simple and effective.

Ahoy Mateys

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Pirates, treasure and the graveyard.

Treasure into graveyard value.

Blood Rites

Clavileno, First of the Blessed

Vampires and sacrifice.

Sacrifice timing takes some practice.

Explorers of the Deep

Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Merfolk and explore.

Explore triggers: simple card selection.

Veloci-Ramp-Tor

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Dinosaurs, ramp and discover.

Ramp into big Dinosaurs, one of the stronger four.

Virtue and Valor

Ellivere of the Wild Court

Green-white, built on Roles and Auras and making one creature enormous.

Stack Roles on one creature: straightforward.

Fae Dominion

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

Blue-black Faeries, flash and control.

Flash and flyers ask for some patience.

Draconic Dissent

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator · Izzet (UR)

Dragons and goad. Firkraag goads a creature whenever your Dragons attack, then grows and draws a card when a creature that had to attack hits one of your opponents.

Goad decides who your opponents fight, so every attack is a political choice.

Exit from Exile

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald · Gruul (RG)

Casting from exile. Every spell cast and land played from exile makes a 2/2 Wolf, and the deck is full of cascade, impulse draw and Adventure cards to feed it.

Wolves come off nearly every card, but cards in exile you can only play this turn need tracking.

Mind Flayarrrs

Captain N'ghathrod · Dimir (UB)

Horrors and mill. Horrors get menace and mill whoever they hit, and at your end step N'ghathrod takes a creature or artifact milled from an opponent's library that turn.

Taking the best card from an opponent's mill each end step means reading their graveyard every turn.

Party Time

Nalia de'Arnise · Orzhov (WB)

Party. Nalia lets you cast Clerics, Rogues, Warriors and Wizards off the top of your library, and with all four in play your team gets a +1/+1 counter and deathtouch each combat.

Checking for a full party each combat and the top of your library each turn is a steady run of small decisions.

Legends' Legacy

Dominaria United Commander

Legendary creatures matter, fitting for an anniversary set.

Legendary matters: a simple payoff to build toward.

Painbow

Dominaria United Commander

Five-color, built on painlands and domain.

Five colors through painlands means managing your own life total.

Buckle Up

Kotori, Pilot Prodigy

Vehicles and Equipment, and the deck that plays to reconfigure.

Reconfigure timing rewards gearing up before combat.

Upgrades Unleashed

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Counters, Auras and modified, going tall on one creature.

Modified triggers stack up on one big threat.

Necron Dynasties

Szarekh, the Silent King

Mono-black, and the artifact and reanimation deck.

Reanimator shell around indestructible artifacts, one of the stronger precons ever printed.

Tyranid Swarm

The Swarmlord

Green-blue-red, built on ravenous and going big.

Big ravenous threats, well regarded straight out of the box.

Forces of the Imperium

Inquisitor Greyfax

White-blue-black, on tokens and taxes.

Tokens and taxes: grindy rather than fast.

The Ruinous Powers

Abaddon the Despoiler

Blue-black-red, on cascade and chaos.

Cascade rewards knowing your own deck's curve.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

Okaun, Eye of Chaos and Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom · Izzet (UR)

Coin flips. The partner pair flips every combat until they lose, Okaun doubling in size and Zndrsplt drawing a card on every win, and Krark's Thumb lets you flip twice and keep the better result.

Coin flips decide a lot of the game for you, which keeps decisions light and results swingy.

First Flight

Isperia, Supreme Judge · Azorius (WU)

Fliers and card draw.

Fliers win slowly, and holding up counterspells is a real decision for a starter deck.

Grave Danger

Gisa and Geralf · Dimir (UB)

Zombies and the graveyard.

Mill, then recast a Zombie from the graveyard each turn, which is one engine to learn.

Chaos Incarnate

Kardur, Doomscourge · Rakdos (BR)

Forcing opponents to attack each other.

Opponents attack each other while you drain off every attacker that dies.

Draconic Destruction

Atarka, World Render · Gruul (RG)

Dragons and ramp.

Ramp into Dragons and attack, and Atarka gives each one double strike.

Token Triumph

Emmara, Soul of the Accord · Selesnya (GW)

Tokens and anthems.

Making tokens and pumping them leaves few choices beyond who to attack.

Bedecked Brokers

Perrie, the Pulverizer

Shield counters and defensive value.

Shield counters protect but don't close games fast.

Obscura Operation

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Connive and card selection.

Connive rewards choosing what to keep each turn.

Maestros Massacre

Anhelo, the Painter

Casualty and copied spells.

Casualty and copied spells ask for careful sacrifice math.

Riveteers Rampage

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

Blitz, and the most popular of the five.

Blitz aggression, the most popular of the five.

Cabaretti Cacophony

Kitt Kanto, Mayhem Diva

Tokens and going wide.

Go wide: straightforward.

Urza's Iron Alliance

Urza, Chief Artificer

Artifact aggression, tokens and going wide.

Artifact tokens go wide.

Mishra's Burnished Banner

Mishra, Eminent One

Artifacts and token copies of what you cast.

Token copies of what you cast add real value.

Aura of Courage

Galea, Kindler of Hope

White-green-blue Auras and Equipment.

Stack Auras and gear: straightforward voltron.

Dungeons of Death

Sefris of the Hidden Ways

White-blue-black, built on venture and the graveyard.

Venture and graveyard triggers ask you to track two things at once.

Draconic Rage

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

Red-green Dragons.

Big Dragons, big attacks.

Planar Portal

Prosper, Tome-Bound

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.

Silverquill Statement

Breena, the Demagogue

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.

Prismari Performance

Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

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.

Witherbloom Witchcraft

Willowdusk, Essence Seer

Black-green lifegain and life loss, converting swings in your total into +1/+1 counters.

Swings in life total become permanent counters.

Lorehold Legacies

Osgir, the Reconstructor

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.

Quantum Quandrix

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

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.

Vampiric Bloodline

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Black-red Vampires and Blood tokens.

Blood tokens filter into whatever the hand needs.

Spirit Squadron

Millicent, Restless Revenant

White-blue Spirits, flying and going wide.

Fly over, go wide: straightforward.

Coven Counters

Leinore, Autumn Sovereign

Green-white Humans and +1/+1 counters, built on coven.

Counters go up; coven checks are easy to hit.

Undead Unleashed

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Blue-black Zombies and decayed tokens.

Recurring Zombies off decayed tokens takes some tracking.

Elven Empire

Lathril, Blade of the Elves

Black-green Elves, going wide and draining with Lathril's tap ability.

Go wide, tap Lathril to drain.

Phantom Premonition

Ranar the Ever-Watchful

White-blue, built on foretell and cards exiled face down.

Tracking foretold cards face-down adds bookkeeping.

Timeless Wisdom

Gavi, Nest Warden

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.

Arcane Maelstrom

Kalamax, the Stormsire

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.

Symbiotic Swarm

Kathril, Aspect Warper

Abzan keyword counters, assembled out of your graveyard rather than off the battlefield.

Counters assembled from the graveyard, with several moving parts.

Enhanced Evolution

Otrimi, the Ever-Playful

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.

Ruthless Regiment

Jirina Kudro

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.

Arm for Battle

Wyleth, Soul of Steel

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.

Reap the Tides

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

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.

White

30 cards, mono-white

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.

Blue

30 cards, mono-blue

Card draw and interference, including several jokes that ask you to do something with the physical card.

Card draw and dexterity jokes.

Black

30 cards, mono-black

Removal and sacrifice, played straight enough that the un-cards land harder.

Removal and sacrifice, played straight enough to land.

Red

30 cards, mono-red

Damage, dice and chaos, which is where most of the set's dexterity cards live.

Damage, dice and chaos.

Green

30 cards, mono-green

Big creatures and mana, the half that turns any pairing into a beatdown deck.

Big creatures turn any pairing into a beatdown.

Land's Wrath

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

Naya landfall, and the deck that turns your lands into the creatures.

Play lands, get value: a simple engine.

Sneak Attack

Anowon, the Ruin Thief

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.

Faceless Menace

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Blue-black-green, and the morph deck.

Morph bluffs and face-down math reward careful sequencing.

Mystic Intellect

Sevinne, the Chronoclasm

White-blue-red, built on flashback.

Cast it twice: straightforward value from flashback.

Merciless Rage

Anje Falkenrath

Black-red madness, and the most played of the four.

Discard-to-cast is a simple loop once you've seen it once.

Primal Genesis

Ghired, Conclave Exile

Red-green-white tokens and populate.

Go wide, then populate your biggest token.

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

BU · Ninjas

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.

Lord Windgrace

BGR · Lands

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.

Estrid, the Masked

GUW · Enchantress

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.

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

BUW · Odd/Even

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.

Bruna, Light of Alabaster

UW · Auras

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.

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

BRU · Wizards

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.

Edgar Markov

BRW · Vampires

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.

Arahbo, Roar of the World

GW · Cats

Cats you control hit harder in combat, and Arahbo itself pumps another Cat every turn.

Cat tribal with a simple combat trigger to track.

The Ur-Dragon

BGRUW · Dragons

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.

Silumgar, the Drifting Death

BU · Dragons

A hexproof flying Dragon that shrinks the defense whenever a Dragon attacks.

A control-leaning Dragon deck, patient rather than fast.

Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

BU · Artifacts

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.

Tana, the Bloodsower

GR · Tokens

A Partner commander that makes a Saproling token for every point of combat damage it deals.

A Partner commander, straightforward tokens off combat damage.

Kraum, Ludevic's Opus

RU · Spellslinger

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.

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

BG · Lifegain

A Partner commander that gains life equal to a creature's toughness whenever it connects.

A Partner commander, straightforward lifegain off combat damage.

Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder

RW · Voltron

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.

Daxos the Returned

BW · Enchantress

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.

Melek, Izzet Paragon

RU · Spellslinger

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.

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

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.

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

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.

Ezuri, Claw of Progress

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.

Nahiri, the Lithomancer

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.

Teferi, Temporal Archmage

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.

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

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.

Daretti, Scrap Savant

R · Artifacts

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.

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

G · Ramp

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.

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

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.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

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.

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher

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.

Marath, Will of the Wild

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.

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

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.

Ghave, Guru of Spores

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.

Zedruu the Greathearted

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.

The Mimeoplasm

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.

Kaalia of the Vast

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.

Riku of Two Reflections

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.