Is It Worth It To Buy A Dominaria United Commander Deck? | A Magic The Gathering Product Review 

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Hello professor, I’m new to magic. I have religiously watched your videos since the start of august. Thank you for making the process of starting something new very welcoming.

It feels like the exclusion of pain lands in the Painbow precon is a massive flavor fail. Especially since they were all reprinted in Dominaria United.

I really like that you did game play analysis before financial this time, it helps reinforce the point that these are decks to play first, then bargains

Bought the painbow and it runs beautifully. The mana ramp runs very well for what you need. The creatures heavily reward having multicolors on the feild, and the triggers all mesh and play well together

Total cost of singles: 10:49 Non-bulk cost of singles: 11:40 Final Conclusion: 13:30 Hope this helps make a snap decision in the store!

I like that Painbow seems more like a canvas to build on than something that's pushing you towards a specific strategy and wincon. Also like that it's a 5 color commander that is not just generic value.

Remembering when the standard set commander decks were only $20… Seems like such a dream ago

13:02 I'm glad to hear that Painbow has the "Bets overall deck comstruction", that's exactly what I'm looking or in a precon Commander deck

It would have been sick if we had gotten a phyrexian themed precon

Since I got back into magic last year, your channel has been my go to for magic content and updates on new sets. As a legacy and commander player I thank you for your hard work and everything you do to keep paper magic going.

I can honestly say, you are the person I watch if I need a unbiased opinion on Mtg products and accessories. I want to thank you for always keeping it real as they say. I look forward to more videos to keep my knowledge up to date

I have a confession.....I can't stop watching your videos. Recently have gotten back into MTG in the last month (last played was with my dad back in the late 90s ) been playing with a co worker and now my son (8yrs old) wants to play lol MTG coming full circle. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos, they are very informative and entertaining.

Prof, I think you were too kind on the manabase with painbow. Yes it's an improvement over ur-dragon but the gap between this and even a budget 5 color EDH Mana base is huge. No reason enemy pain lands (or ally but apparently that's too expensive for wotc to reprint) and/or filter lands or heck even a cycle of kaldheim snow duals (same synergy as tango lands with slow fetches) could have been included instead of so many basics. And keep in mind this is a very pip intensive deck with a proper wubrg commander that costs wubrg and a bunch of high costed multicolor legendaries. I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot of players unhappy with this out of the box and basically bricking each turn and not having enough pips to get out all their stuff.

Thank you for the comprehensive breakdown. I am a new player and have just joined a weekly Commander playgroup. I was interested in getting one of the new decks but wasn't certain what was a better choice. Thanks to the information in this video I will get Legend's Legacy in an effort to understand the game mechanics better in an effort to build up to the more complex 5 color Painbow deck in the future since that seems interesting.

Hi Prof, thank you for putting a bunch of effort into this video about how these decks play. as for me, I tend to buy precons to play with my dad out of the box. and it always sucks to put money into products that don't end up providing fun games. Thanks!

the mana bases have been improving in the commander precons. the comparison to the abysmal Ur-Dragon precon mana base is apt and telling. we haven't seen guildgates since the Kaldheim precons I'm not in the market for either deck, but the reprints are pretty decent. the ones in the $1-5 range aren't big money, but generally they maintain that kind of price because they're universally useful

Well written, I love how you brought attention to the mana base and appreciated painbow's construction

Hey Prof! Love and appreciate everything you do!

Nice! I was not expecting such a good opinion regarding the Painbow deck. I am a happy camper because I opened mine yesterday!

I like how Painbow doesn’t include Sol Ring. It shows that the precons are willing to move away from shoving staples down our throats, and trying to tune back how many copies of it are in circulation.

I can definitely say that is a beautiful land base, I bought the UR DRAGON deck as my first commander deck, and it is finally nearing complete, just got my first Taiga now just the other 9 duals to go! Thanks for the wonderful and informative videos professor!

Great video as usual, prof! Ordered a pair of these from my LGS and I look forward to sleeving up and playing them, as well as deciding whether to upgrade them.

Great video!! You always help me decide on which magic products to get!

Another print quality issue: The rare stamp on a lot of the Mardu deck cards looked rubbed-off

Great Content Prof. ;as usual you give a great overview and are straightforward and to the point. I've actually been working on a new 5 color deck for a while and your review of Painbow's mana base really helped me out. Many Thanks 🙂

I Always love how the professor is so open about advertising. He makes it clear that is a sponsorship, keeps it short, and offers alternatives to whatever he promotes. It is really appreciated to be trated with respect as consumers, and not forced into season 19 of raid shadow legends Keep up the great content prof

13:01 "Bets overall deck comstruction" made me chuckle. But another great video, Prof!

Always out here with the best reviews! Thanks Professor!

My recommendation for a slight mana base upgrade (still budget though) if you want to run less tap lands is to run the 5 panoramas and 5 odyssey filter lands and take out the tri lands. The panoramas and slow fetches are both great stand ins for budget players to replace with true fetch lands when they are ready and shocklands for the tango lands and odyssey filters. These 20 cards (panoramas, slow fetches, tango lands and odyssey lands) have been my go to budget mana base for 5 color decks for a couple years now and are a nice balance between fixing and tempo before upgrading to true fetches and shocks

Sincerely appreciate this review. This felt like a return to form, with product reviews.

perfectly presented professor!..thank you for explaining the mana fix for the ur-dragon..will follow that template 🙂

As a pretty experienced Magic player at this point, I’m super excited about the Painbow concept. Excellent start for a deck that you can totally make your own. 🤩

The other reviews ive seen for painbow focused on the fact that so many of the lands were entering tapped. Thanks for going more in depth

I love that you look at not only the financial value but also the enjoyment and performance in play.

Good job on the 5C manabase analysis, it's really nice. As is this background music, it gives me wild associations.

With the Ur-Dragon being one of my first commander decks. I GREATLY appreciated you bringing up the painbow manabase. I had to learn a lot about construction to fix it very early on, where this is reasonable fixing!

Haven't seen one of these reviews in a while, is good to see the professor back on this type of videos

Awesome video! I 100% agree with your recommendation to new players versus old players. They are cool decks!

This is my favorite review of painbow. I love the deck and i only bought it after this video. Keep it up prof!

The way you opened the video talking about the lands was actually great, it made me want to go get the Painbow deck lol

Awesome job as always Prof! Keep up the awesome work and take care!

Thanks for all your videos. Great learning each time. and i love the outro music :)

That Legend’s Legacy is calling to me so many new commander options inside. I’m pumped.

Been waiting for this one, thanks Prof!

As always, great vídeo, Prof! Greetings from Brazil!

Great deck review as always. Thanks Prof!

Another superb video. Thanks for educating us.

Just ordered both of them for a good price over in germany! Really excited to get my hands on them! :)

Great vid, gonna be going to my lgs after work to pick up both of them.

I'm so glad that the mana base is actually looking nice for the five color precon! I can't wait to get these soon

Also cool intro, someone either tossed it perfectly or you threw it up perfectly and caught it without looking 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 smooth like buttery butter

Funfact I bought painbow and before modifying it I played about 4 games with it. Other decks were made by other players I don't remember whole deck setup but two of them were creature based win decks and last one was a combo deck. I won two of those games by simply using Jared's 1st and second ability and other 5c creatures especially two-headed hellkite and maelstrom angel. I used single removals to get rid of problematic creatures or permanents. It was usually like this. Put krosan verge on 2nd turn (both my wins happened this way) crack it at third turn. Put Jared on 4th turn put a kavu as blocker. At 5th turn I often had 6 mana so I played two headed hellkite pump it with Jared's -3 along with kavu suddenly a flying meance 10/10 attacks someone I draw two cards. Someone killed the hellkite? get it back with Jared's ulti rinse and repeat. Other cards kept people in check long enough for me to kill everyone with Maelstrom Angel or two-headed hellkite. Iridian maelstrom and time wipe let me kept my biggest creature on board and getting it bigger while cleaning everyone else's board. After modifying the deck I might even lowered its efficiency honestly I might be just keep it as is only to replace the lands with triones and new capenna ones.

This is very informative, and should be acknowledged. It's easy so many trust this channel.

I love how I haven't played mtg in like 3 years, and never got super into it (tho I always want to), but I *love* your vids 😂 Can't wait for my Academic XL 😁

Prof just casually opening an extended art Shivan Devastator in one of his sample boosters lol I've been excited for Painbow since it was first announced and I'll be picking it up (and upgrading it) as soon as possible, but not at a markup! Thanks Professor!

Damn Prof, that transition of the box falling from above screen into your hands at 0:30 was sick!

Legendary tribal will always have a place in my heart, been waiting for a good legend tribal commander in mardu since Piru was spoiled in Modern Horizons. Ill be picking up this game from my local store. Love the review as always ^^

Prof, you are awesome, don't stop being you.

Great video as always. I was thinking about the pentacolor one, but I think I will pass for now. Maybe take a look at older ones, but for sure will remember about the mana base like the Carthalion deck for 5color decks of my own!

I’m planning on getting both and using them to build a deck using the new Jodah along with a few other specific cards but this was a good breakdown.

Hey prof thanks for the effort you put into things like this. The rare independent voice💪🏻🥰 Also I haven’t checked out the discord community yet but that sounds amazing!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I'll most likely get the painbow to help my Tiamat and Omnath(4 color) with the lands and ramp. Thank you for the video. 😊

Always like these, thanks prof

Great assessment. Thanks Prof!

I love your videos and I also love how much fun you have with the game

Great video thanks prof!

One video I would really like to see is something like a "Which 5 commander decks from the last 5 (or whatever) years are best suited for beginners?" Which ones offer the best bang for you buck, are somewhat competitive withoput being too complex for new players? I am currently watching all your recent commander reviews trying to figure out which deck to get and really appreciate your work! For a new player your channel is pure gold!

great review prof!

I just picked up the Legends’ Legacy from my LGS. Can’t wait to play it!!

Hello professor. Did some playtesting with painbow. I felt the slow mana really hurt the deck significantly without edits. After fixing the mana base it performed significantly better.

I clicked this so fast! Ive been waiting for this video!

I think the legends deck also offers new players more potential commander, granted only on the Mardu, side of the wedge but they could find a legendary that appeals to them or their play style. Thanks for another great vid.

I am quite excited to pick them both up. I hope my job gets them in lol.

I was pleasantly surprised to see they released a new five color precon. I was just looking to finally make a Ramos deck, and these two were great purchases to cannibalize for it. I agree whole-heartedly on the mana base. I basically took Painbow and swapped out a ton of cards but left the mana base intact save for removing the slow fetches, adding some mana dorks and some mana rocks, and tossing in Yavimaya + Urborg. I was shocked by how well/consistently this thing runs. I'll be swapping in a few of the triomes and fetch lands that I have, but it really doesn't even need them.

Oh wow I drafted Blackblade Reforged and Traxos in a Dominaria draft back in 2018, nostalgia to see them in the same deck!

Nice breakdown of the Painbow Manabase! Just looking at a list of Lands I don't know if I would have noticed all that! Thanks!

God, I was so excited when I saw Painbow for the first time. I can't wait to upgrade that.

Great as always. I specifically enjoy your focus on mana bases in precons, and am likewise awed that Wizards finally printed a good one. I do wish you would add a caveat to your financial section when doing day 1 analyses of precons. The price of precon exclusive new cards is always inflated during the presale and first weekend period. The fact that most of the cards of value from both decks are the new precon exclusives means the decks will lose a significant amount of value in the coming weeks. These cards that are over ten dollars on presale and day 1 are very likely to drop by half or more in just a week or two unless they turn out to be completely busted. Basically what I'm saying is that someone could order a deck based on your breakdown, thinking they're getting a handful of 10+ dollar cards, but those cards could easily be only 2-3 dollars each by the time the deck arrives.

I purchased a copy of each one for my friend and myself to play out of the box when he comes to visit. Though already I'm trying to get together a lot of legendary permanents as well as five color cards so we can have fun upgrading them afterward.

I bought all the singles I wanted today and it cost me almost exactly what a box would have been. Not quite as exhilarating as cracking packs, but it feels great to just simply have everything I need. First set in a while that I've gotten excited for!

Good job Professor another great video! 👍

The amount of alliteration attained in the opening was delightful

The professor is very much so someone I would totally want to have a nice cup of tea with. The professor is just a saint of niceness to the community of players in the magic the gathering realm love ya Brian keep on trucking as the grateful dead would say

I agree regarding the WUBRG prof! I played the ur-dragon since it was released and it was hard to upgrade it to fully operational. The new one has a good manabase, though a confusing strategy unless tweaked properly.

I always buy the precons. They get some sweet first timers randomly. I like those only printed once for ten years type cards

Glad to hear that the 5 color deck isn’t just a pile of gates.

Just bought both of these to add to my precon collection. Out of all the recent precons that have come out in the last 2 years, the ones from Innistrad Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow have been the most beginner friendly I have seen.

I have a multi color draft cube and I've been using slow fetches and tangos with signets for fixing. It works great.

Hey prof, love your vids. Just wanted to let ya know there's a couple small typos at 13:21. Don't forget to proofread (unlike WotC lol)

This is like my Ur Dragon deck cut in half. A 5 color deck on one side, and a legend tribal deck on the other. I shouldn't be excited just by the use of the original Planeshift art for Terminate but it did add more desire for me to get these decks.

excited for painbow my upgrades for the deck came in today just waiting on the deck

Another pretty obvious thing about Painbow is the Jared is the first WUBRG planeswalker (Not counting the silver border Urza)

Wow. I really like the mana base in the painbow deck. I was about to write a comment saying I’m burnt out on commander but nope. These look like fun decks

Wow, casual full art shivan destoryer. Good stuff though, been wanting to pick up painbow since i've never tried any decks with more than two colors (relatively new player haha). Do like what I'm seeing though, so might grab both of them when the prices drop later.

I'm picking up the Legends precon. Mardu Legends-matter is a nice open-ended theme that might be a little aggro-centric out of the box but will always have support going forward (unless they for some reason decide to stop printing legendary creatures).

Haven't played in 20+ years, need a new deck, heading to the LGS today to check out the wares!!!!! Going to look at precon decks, that's where I left off in 1997 with Tempest precons.

Interesting decks this time. Like Painbow, myself.

God this channel has such beautiful timing

Love ya, great content!!