5 Commander Precons You Should Pick Up Right Now! 

My son played the Virtue and Valor deck. It's pretty awesome. It ramps everything up and having ways to grab auras and enchantments out of the graveyard can be brutal. He was having a great time turning anything cool into a 3/3 elk with no abilities. Best joke of the night... "I just want to see you happy. I then want to take that happiness and turn it into a 3/3 elk" lol

Velociramptor without upgrades is pretty strong out of the box. Upgrading it destroys high power decks.

I just want to say Henzie is a precon I bought on a whim and it's my all-time favorite deck. I think part of it is that it actually accounts for all the parts of commander that can be less fun: Because creatures are blitzed, you a pretty much guaranteed to always do something cool/fun on your turn. His second ability isn't one I ever use intentionally but does make you feel better when he gets removed, which ameliorates the bad feeling of having your commander removed, as in some ways your deck works stronger. Plus if he's removed early, you get a noticeable cost reduction for the rest of the game. If he's removed later, you can usually recost him and still do something else on your turn. Because your creatures die at the end of the turn, your board is usually never huge, which I think helps other players feel as if your deck is "fair"/interactable, which I think helps how the table feels. However, when your board gets huge, it's usually because you just did something very cool and likely did a bunch of damage/resolved triggers, so when you do get targeted you don't feel bad. Finally, the deck just does a bit of everything I'd want to do. Stompy bois? cool ETBs? cool combat triggers? cool die triggers? Reanimation? All great. All the while, the blitz draw keeps you getting more options. I know there's an infinite combo or two, but my group doesn't play with those. And the combat-centric playstyle makes the games go faster too. You can build a Henzie deck at pretty much any level or budget, and have a good time no matter what. I highly recommend the Henzie Discord for deck discussion and card recommendations, but honestly, you can just play whatever creatures you like to resolve.

Henzie Torre sounds like a fun deck to build. I can see Wurmcoil Engine fitting right in :)

Kadena was so underrated. I ended up getting a lot of the 2019 commanders and she performs really consistently. Not super strong but not a push over. Very fun deck

surprises me how many people got Kadena as their first commander pre-con. I bought it from a friend of mine who didn't play it anymore and i wanted to try it. it has a hard time closing off games but I think its best to see it as a control deck

You sold Morph deck (Kedena) and Virtue and Valor deck for me. Thanks so much for introducing these 5 precons to me. ❤

KADENA MENTIONED WOOOOOH! This was my second Commander deck and I love it, it's still my best casual deck. The only thing it's not mentioned here is Morph can turn into a really complicated mechanic, I suggest any player to read and watch videos about Morph or you'll be slowing the game down on the table from time to time.

kadena was the first precon ever for mtg and commander it was such a fun deck to use still want to go back to it

Just got the rebellion rising deck yesterday for $28, it's a great option for clever concealment and flawless manuever, while some of the remaining cards could be used to brew or add to other decks. The worth of the full precon is around $63 and i found out i had direct use to aroud $39 of it so it was a no brainer.

I bought the Rebellion Rising deck and really enjoyed my time upgrading it. Although after a while I noticed that the deck underperformed for me with Neyali at the helm and switched to the alternative commander Otharri. Otharri is a powerhouse that needs to be dealt with. But in the end I actually ended up taking apart the deck again and making an Isshin (Two Heavens As One) deck which is really, really fun to play for me.

As someone who's first precon was Lorehold Legacies, your assessment of it growing with you is so spot on. 3 years later and I am still upgrading it and enjoying it. Such a versatile well rounded deck that can be played in so many different ways: value engine, big artifact creatures, voltron, stax, combo etc.

All of the decks you showcased here are all ones that I’ve tested, and depending on the table, can hold their own VERY well. I happily replay all of them. 😊

I'm getting that Eldraine one for my GF, found a pack with it and the fairie deck and I'm picking the enchantments one for her and the other one for me since I want a dimir commander. It'll be her first deck so I hope she has can have a great time with it

I’ve watched a lot of these types of videos as a new player. This list is actually helpful and well done. Thank you.

I can confirm the morph deck is really good BUT it can be tough to follow and keep track of a dozen face down cards, especially after upgrading it. I never tried it but it could be better if you used the tokens when you played something and then keep a second hand of all your face downs for reference and the ability to track what's what. I can say one of the BEST upgrades for it is a burgeoning, in one round of turns i played out 6 lands from hand since you draw a tonne.

Honestly all the warhammer precons are fun, flavorful decks right out of the box

Rebellion Rising was my first deck! Funny thing that it's overlooked, since I won my first few matches because I wasn't considered a threat until it was too late. Fun deck!

I bought the Rebellion Rising deck and it was really fun. After a while it switched it to Jetmir. Good pick.

Wanted to mention Spirit Squadron. Its not a very typical but very well done tribal, that cares about dying, tapping and graveyards. The list is pretty tight and revolves around spirits, so there arent that many expensive staples, but it plays really nice

One thing re Rebellion rising - it’s a potential Rebel commander!!! The alternative commander there is a phoenix who creates rebel token and for tapping a rebel can be reanimated. Very sweet to revive old lin sivvi and other old rebels:)

Just built a Henzie deck with scraps I had lying around. Such a fun commander!

Started playing with virtue and valor and it's so much fun

Back in 2013 i got the evasive maneuvers with derevi, it’s a bant GWB deck and it’s my top so far, you can add karametra, profet of krupix, infinit tolkens with the sailor and green aura, infinit mana with rings and basalt, you litteraly untap all at any time for the counters, it’s a blast. Now i’m waiting for my ixalan merfolks to do some exploring

I run a heavily modified Kadena precon. My table hates it as they never know what's face down and plays at Flash speed.

The group my wife and I play with like to use our own EDH decks but every once in a while we have a precon night where we use the decks as they are sold no upgrades, surprisingly enough it's a lot of fun though most decks are poor to average some do hold up quite well Rebellion Rising and Virtue and Valor like you said being two great decks out of the box. Another good one out of the box is Urza's Iron Alliance, always have a ball with it, even if it wasn't I'd still enjoy it the old style borders are a nice nostalgia trip. I have this thing when I get Dungeons of Death with Sefris, I so want it to work, and it never does. :D

Exit from exile is great with Faldhorn as the commander. probably my most resilient deck by far

faceless menace seems really good with the new set that just came out!

I was missing the Exit from Exile precon! It's Gruul with Faldorn at the helm. She gives you wolves for playing cards from exile, while she herself is able to exile a card. It's pretty great out of the box and with the recent exile payoff cards being added to the game, it's getting better and better. Sure, Prosper is probably the more powerful exile matters commanders, but Faldorn seems more fun to play for me.

thanks for another great video! Not enough ads, RU-vid..

I’ve been eyeing Riveteers for awhile, definitely gonna get it.

I had the Kadena Faceless Menace deck gifted to me, and I was really happy!! At first. The deck has not many upgrades you could get into, and it felt powerful in the 4-precon meta BUT it left much to desire on the constructed commander format. I couldn't upgrade it as much as I wanted and ended up butchering it (as much as I could, because it's so focused on morph that it was really hard to put its cards into other decks)

Kadena with a little bit of upgrades with wincons is a blast :) people never expect you can win with morphs

+1 for virtue and valor, I've only been playing for about 6 months but getting this deck early on really helped get me interested in commander. You get to play fairly recklessly with enough options to bring back your best auras and creatures from the grave. Fracturing Gust was fun to swap in, but don't expect it to always end well lmao.

kadena also just got a massive boost with the disguise cards from karlov manor

YEAH RIVITEERS RAMPAGE! My first deck and has become one of my faves being heavily modified with a lot of bombastic cards

I bought the Neyali token deck, and I've been very happy with it. I recently bought 8 cards to upgrade it, but even without them, it's been fun.

Kadena is great! I have all apart from virtue and valor. Must change that now!

The Boros Tokens have ×2 strike deck is awesome. I enjoy it right out the box with less than $5 replacements to add indestructible for all your creatures. Frontline Medic is a key....

I have both of the Wilds Of Eldraine Commander Decks, last time that I played a Precon Commander event, I played the Faerie deck so tomorrow night, I will play the other deck.

The Dihala Planeswalker deck is really cool. Fun out the box. Super easy to upgrade and versatile since you can swap legendaries depending on what you want to do.

Rebellion Rising is great for the novice deck builder. Theres 2 clear direction you can take the deck when upgrading so it's a great start for a newbie

Land’s Wrath is an absolute banger, with just a few upgrades it can become a beast of a deck, and it’s only like 18 dollars

Trying to get into magic and learn commander so would any of these 5 be good for a beginner?

Honestly i think Party Time out of CLB is a pretty good Precon, even though the party mechanic is a little underused there are some powerfull cards in it

I own lorehold legacies, can confirm, really fun, also should mention the painbow deck, domanaria 5 color, i have alotta fun playing it

The blood token precon Strefan. Is pretty messed up too. I wasnt a fan of the set at all but the precon came with ways to give your vamps 1st strike and deathtouch though. I never modified it and it holds up against slivers and eldrazi better than some of my hardcore decks

The Captain N'ghathrod one can become pretty strong with minor upgrades. Get some good mill cards to replace the do-nothing horrors and you got a pretty strong and adaptable deck.

As a super new player (I literally don't even have my own deck, just have been borrowing others), would y'all suggest the Virtue and Valor precon? I'm pretty unsure. but it is relatively cheap, and so it isn't the end of the world if it isn't my favorite.

Exit from exile is fun, that blue black one with ghisa and gheralt as commander is nasty. Planeswalkers party I got for 45 and is really fun

Can confirm, Virtue and Valor is absolutely nasty out of the box. Played a 3-pod with a guy who shuffled it up straight outta the cellophane, no sleeves or anything, and he steamrolled both of us who were playing expensive decks. The alternate commander in it is also quite good, and it can upgrade into a ridiculously OP deck.

Huh. Nice. I actually just ordered the Virtue and Valor precon

Restless revanent was my second precon I picked up and let me tell you Milicent is RIDICULOUS. So hard to control my board state while my creatures not only make spirit tokens but when the non tokens die, I get more spirits which reduces Milicent recast cost. So strong.

Osgir is underrated. Playing reanimate in Boros is a great time. It does need a few tweaks to really shine, though.

I'm having fun with Quantum Quandrix. But ngl I upgraded the hell out of it, so I'll get another precon and do minor upgrades. It had insane card draw, but it works as a token creation deck.

the faldorn precon id love to see what you thought about it and the esper knights precon

Surprisingly, I have 3/5 decks, and I can for sure say they are fun 😅

Kadena! My first commander ❤

It is very very fun to play kadena.

Virtue and Valor is my wife's favorite deck. It isn't complicated. It's fast. It can get crazy powerful in absolutely no time.

i own the kadena deck, and that thing fucks so hard

I picked Anhelo and boy... This quickly became my favorite. Lay low, build stupid combos, and literally explode the table. Killed 3 players by milling 100+ cards in the same turn.

My biggest issue with V&V deck was... that i already own most of the expensive cards, so it was a lot cheaper to buy missing pieces than to buy the deck. lol As far as Kadena goes tho... Morphs are terrible, there are a very few upgrades to be made for the deck, and in the future, there's little chance new morph cards will be made, which ruins its fun I guess. Similar thing happened with Mutate deck, which is another Sultai bust. Morph's are a drag to play tho, remembering which facedown card is which is really annoying. lol Heck I play werewolves and I find tracking Day/Night less taxing. lol

I got a couple commander master precons over the years and Ellivere is still the biggest “what the fuck this commander goes crazy so fast so consistently!” Even though it’s a base precon. I get similar vibes from each ixalan precon. Hakbal explore also goes off so fast

I want to declare that the Prosper and Breena ones are also incredibly good with just a bit of tweaking.

The price in canada drives me insane for example just for the first example the minimum is 50 cad but most places sell them for 70$ cad

picked up a friend of mine the neylai precon and not gonna lie he has buffed a few cards out of it and has been kind of stomping our play group last few games!

I’ve been having a great time with Timey Wimey if that counts for anything but to be fair it is my first deck

I don’t know about the rest of the viewers but I’m not getting anything for $29 in this economy just for a fun and fresh out of the box experience and nothing else. Solid review on these precons though!

Kadena is suuuuper fun

Neyali can be a beast, with the right upgrades. Rabble Rousing is just one card that I could mention.

I am new to magic and realised that the commander decks are pretty expensive. So I was wondering does this format rotate so that in a few years I cant play a 3 year old deck anymore or can I buy one deck and play it like for ever?

Got Faceless for Christmas 😌❤️

If one more commander youtube channel slanders planeswalker party, I'm gonna lose my mind. That Precon is killer out of box and functions well even when I pulled the best pieces for other decks.

+1 for team Henzi … it’s just so good. You can fully build it your own with draft chaff and it can still be pretty good. Another fun precon I would suggest is Kalamax.

Osgir is funny because you can use his second ability with artifact lands.

I hope Faceless Menace is as good as you say. Just won him on ebay!

LATHRIL Elven Empire and Wileth the Rotcleaver aren't happy to be forgotten lol

Blood rites is slept on .

man should have watched your video a week earlier .. just bought flawless maneuver and clever concealment for my explore dinosaur deck. Could have safed a lot of money there

Ahoy maties, exit from exile and food and fellowship all go hard out of the box

i'd love the commander masters precons if they weren't DOUBLE THE PRICE FOR NO REASON. I picked up the cats deck instead, it was pre-owned but only the basic lands were different (hey, they were swapped for unstable basics so no reason not to.) I also got the morph deck from the same store, it's a ton of fun

Both commanders in rebellion rising are silly good in isshin two heavens as one.

Bought Virtue and Valor for my GF so I could teach her how to play. We’ve played multiple times since then and I’ve only beat her once so it’s pretty good.

This video aged well, considering we just got told that Murders at Karlov Manor will have cards that interact with face down cards

I recently picked up the virtue and Valor precon for 15€ such a great deal and with a few updates it felt really strong

Every store I checked out has none of them in stock, unfortunately.

Faceless menace was my first commander precon and it suuuucks, it has fun mechanics but the attention you have to spend on your own board state versus how little pay-off you get from flipping your cards feels really clunky and is not at all powerful.

The vechile precon is dope. It can run away with the game pretty easily.

i got the virtue and valor pack yesterday at the card shop in my town while with my homie. ive only been playing for like a week if that adapting somewhat well to the game and killed one of the top shop players in a 4 player game after he talked shit in 2 turns😅😂

Neyali was fun but I replaced her with jetmir and it's a menace

Zendikar landwrath deck super value at 23$ cad

Neyali is underrated.

$29.55 for the first one; cheapest on TCG is $36. increased demand, i guess.

Hey don’t tell people about Kadima! That’s my main deck and it’s really only good because no one has any idea how to play against morphs. If a bunch of people start playing it that will no longer be the case.

Riders of Rohan. Very aggressiv.

i'm giving away Faceless Menace as we speak

I'm still confused about why no one likes planeswalker party 1 ichormoon and you can go infinite and win with almost nothing your opponents cab do about it

exit to exile

you sound like cjya