Is It Worth It To Buy A Strixhaven Commander 2021 Deck? A Magic: The Gathering Product Review 

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Never have I seen someone hate to love something as much as this

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the lack of plastic! That genuinely impressed me that the packaging on this product is mostly bio-degradable.

I for one welcome our thick commander card overlords.

I remember when a card being "able to stand on it's own" meant something completely different

Idk why, but the monotone "financial" during the transition made me laugh so hard 😂

“The decks are all the same price!” *checks amazon* Uh oh

Kids: What's a big woop? Grandpa: Back in my day when we had Tempest and Stronghold, we'd say 'big woop' when our friend would play a Gaia's Cradle when they'd play an elf deck while I played....

Been waiting on this video before I even think about purchasing this set. Best source for Magic product judgement around.

One of the photos you used for a "local game store" is my local game store...

The Prof calling out the good whens good and bad whens bad , a source to trust!

I always appreciate your consideration of new players, as despite playing the game with friends for about 3 years now I still tend to feel like that person who doesnt know what's going on. Great video!

No joke, I was just sitting here wondering if it is worth it to buy a Strixhaven Commander deck, and this popped up.

*Has preordered all 5 decks* "Ahh yes, I should listen to The Professor tell me whether I should regret my decision or not." I feel that $40 for the Commander precons is a very acceptable cost compared to the cost of assembling a deck by buying singles. Since 2015 I've bought one from each year, with the exception of 2018 and 2019 as I feel the product was lackluster during those years, lacking in value, and the commanders of the decks from those years just didn't interest me. Now in 2021 with the Strixhaven-themed precons, every one of them has caught my eye as being interesting and potentially fun to play and upgrade, with a very good value in reprints alone (at time of reveal). I'm glad they went with foil-etched instead of the regular foiling process because my 2020 Commander foils are already curling (2017 and earlier are still perfectly straight). I'm very excited to see how the new Strixhaven decks perform and to see what kind of shenanigans I can get up to building around some of the included cards.

The new Eco-friendly boxes are pretty nifty.

The heads up for the preorder on Amazon is great. Good to know you can go and buy these right now without having to worry about price hikes due to availability or any other possible problems.

Wow, very surprised to hear Prof offer positive remarks regarding Wizards’s relationship with Amazon. He always tells it the way he sees it.

I really love Lorehold as a whole. In my playgroup, only two people actually had Boros decks because of how weak it is as a whole. Now though, I would not be surprised to see a few new decks pop up.

8:56 Mr. Plinkett with the guest transition spot

Thanks professor, your channel has been a large influence of rekindling my interest in this game.

Typed in "Tolarian Derp" and search result was "Top 8 Must-have Red Cards For Commander" My Izzet heart tingles, time to get derpy.

Amazon has minimal packaging versions of these products, and I think that is pretty neat. However, after getting the new decks, I don't see the draw (ha) of that. The new, all cardboard packaging is great and environmentally friendly. I am impressed with Hasbro's ability to eliminate a good deal of plastic from their packaging.

Always appreciate the unfiltered opinions from you prof. Haven't bought anything other than prerelease kits for a year or so but these are looking nice.

I bought the Prismari deck from my LGS last weekend and I absolutely fell in LOVE with it.

Can confirm, the lorehold one is actually pretty legit.

Actual opinion here, Me and my friends bought the Simic, izzet and the golgari deck and we tried them during different games. I have to say.. actually that they are not bad, they are even good considering that they are starting ones and you have to upgrade them, i liked them, there were a lot of good synergy between cards and great cards as well. Greetings!

I just went with the wife and some last night to walmart and decided to try commander. We had a large selection of these comma der decks to choose from and I got the lorehold without knowing what was in it. Between all three we got, they all played really well. I can't express how much these play well and are totally worth it.

I've been waiting for this review! Thanks for the great feedback as always

I was hoping you would talk about, or at least mention, the new reduced waste packaging, especially the stripped down online retail version.

"Do you kids know what I mean when I say Big Whoop?" Obviously a reference to the legendary treasure from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Since that's a pirate themed series, I can only say that by Big Whoop you mean "return to Ixalan!" Did I get that right?

This is some reeeeally encouraging news, AND from what I've seen online / with my own foils from pre-release, the quality SEEMS to be improved!

These reviews for strixhaven have been awesome!! I finally got into modern and gonna buy all the precons now, thanks professor!!

I appreciate the prof making up a far more interesting name for the Quandrix deck

Searching "Tolarian Poop" got me a dies to removal podcast.

I am just excited to see and play with this new realm. As always another wonderful lesson.

Great review an usual, Prof! Got Silverquill Statement a few weeks ago as the first ever pre-con I've bought. Had many fun games with my friends, and I don't regret it for a moment! Currently waiting for the "Witherbloom Witchcraft" to arrive, as it has some of my favourite mechanics in it, so hoping to be just as happy about that.

Just to gouge out Amazon of moneys, my LGS was offering an entire set of all 5 commander decks at 160$. Basically got one deck for free.

Watching professor struggling to find reasons to hate these decks is a joy. Thanks to wotc for creating great product and prof for informing us about it!

Thank you professor! Captured my ambivalence well and made me feel much better with your thoughtfulness

Finally my man! I waited on this video before i pre-order some commander decks! Thanks as always.

I love that they are offering a minimal packaging option on Amazon this time around.

hahaha "I taste metal" I laughed aloud, ty prof

This video alone made me want to learn to play the game. Love your videos and been binge watching them since I found you.

I literally just had in my cart a Lorehold deck + Smothering Tithe and Sword of Feast and Famine to upgrade it, as well as some conditional untapped ETB lands for upgrading other decks. I came to check if you already had this video posted before make a possible regretful purchase and now I'm 145 Euros poorer, yet proportionally happier. I love the idea of having a bunch of pre-constructed decks ready to play with my friends, tks for the little push!

I bought witherbloom this weekend and am loving it! I really like using my life as a more actively used resource!

Love how the professor understands the meme around the way he used to read his headers lol.

Done! Gone back and watched, liked and commented on the C2016 video review. It’s amazing to see how the videos have evolved as well as the products and your opinions. And this video? Glorious. Thanks.

Lorehold is my first pick as well. I think that one thing I really like about those decks is the fact that while still going for mecanics that exists in their color identities, they are trying to do something different from the usual pre-constructed decks of those colors.

The 40 dollar precons are designed to be somewhat balanced around each other and to be played against each other. Now they are supposed to be more of a board game to be bought as 5 and less to be played individually. Thats also why the big precons cost more, because they need significantly more playtesting. The cheaper ones barely do.

Thank you for your work and dedication, prof! Just a little correction there: Strixhaven is the name of the school, not the plane. It is located on the plane of Arcavios.

You summed up exactly how I'm feeling about these. I've never been drawn to all 5 in one year before (I got 1 in 2018, 1 in 2019 and 2 in 2020) in the way that I have been this year and may actually end up getting them as a battle box to play with friends.

Right as always got my pre-release kit booster box and Commander deck from my lgs three days ago and couldn't be happier thinking about buying some more

"These decks are available now at your local game store!" *cries in Australian*

The majority of cards in these decks are cards that I thought “man, I needed an extra copy or two of these for my collection”. These decks are great!

Thank you prof 🧑‍🏫. I preordered all of these a while ago and was scared that I made a bad move. I am glad that I made a good choice.

Subscribed immediately! Thanks for the super review! The Lorehold Commander Deck becomes my first commander deck ever. I am so excited. 🤩

8:41 Thanks to this arrangement with Amazon, the Hasbro corporation is fostering small businesses and protecting consumers of- *smack Oh god! *smack I taste metal! *gasp Am I having a stroke? F i n a n c i a l .

I winced pretty hard when you were able to stand up that commander from last year. That's a real curve lol.

Hello Professor, I went yesterday to my game store, bought the Lorehold Legacies, the protectors and a few upgrades. Then with the help of the friends there y sleeved, upgraded the deck and played a match. All with the necessary sanitary precautions, of course. A great deck, playable from the box but very easy and inexpensive to upgrade. Thanks a lot for your videos and your help.

I already ordered a few of these decks but I was super excited to get the profs breakdown of the decks

I don’t even like magic, but the way you articulate everything and explain these decks has me hooked lol. I can’t even fully explain it. Keep up the great work!

So, you're saying Gamegenic needs to update their XL deck boxes... again for these even thicker cards? Great job prof, love the videos!

thanks for making these kinds of videos prof. been a while and was planning on buying these. Great review as always! :)

Love your content prof. Your upbeat attitude always brightens my day.

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes. I bought the Witherbloom deck and had most of the cards to upgrade it. It's got me back into playing and it's probably the most fun I've had building the deck.

I love watching fascinating videos done by knowledgeable and charismatic people about things I know absolutely nothing about. Never played this game in my life or held one of these cards before, but I am so invested in this video. Lol

My MTG playing friends got me into Arena over the pandemic. We met up for the first time in ages this weekend, and one of the guys bought this full set to give everyone a deck. I picked Prismari Performance because I liked the idea of the magical conductor/orchestra, and while I definitely found I needed help getting through my turns when all the multiple-repeating-interlocking trigger effects started going off, I must say I thought the deck achieved its theme wonderfully and I had an absolute blast playing my first game of paper magic.

Looking forward to this video. The PO came earlier tho. Happy that prof approves this product. Makes me feel very excited waiting and a winner!

What's hilarious is that I never even considered buying the 20 dollar boxes, because I assumed that they were watered down and for new players. I'm part of the problem...

Everytime y'all say $40 I flinch cause hah they're *70* in Canada y'all.

Love your videos, I use them as a sole reference for what to purchase from each new set. Thanks!

good to see the prof happy. this is in the right direction for mtg products fs.

5:29 Same Prof, same 😂

I'm probably just going to wait until amazon put the whole set on sale for about $100 for all of them. Same as they did for Commander 2019 and 2020.

So thankful for this video. Let's go Professor!

Again another well thought out and informative video! Thank you

Professor: Type 'Tolarian' and any other word in the search bar My hands: Tolarian goose

I mean the ones at my LGS were going for $32 the night of prerelease.

These vids are my favorite to watch during new releases ^_^

As someone who was disparaged when I went into my lgs and saw the new commander decks for $50-60, I'm glad you mentioned the amazon alternative this instance. Did still get a prerelease kit while I was there though, just hope I can get a proper draft box at some point.

“held hostage by my hobby” really hit me a little too hard 🪦

Bonus points to Professor Brian for using the word, "whinging".

I bought the lorehold commander through mailing with my old LGS and its arriving this monday. It was $15 more due to the shipping costs, but so worth it to help a store I loved.

Well, I'd trusted my gut reaction when the decks were revealed, and reserved a Lorehold deck from my LGS right away. If it's really in early I'll be happy to pick it up! Thanks for the heads up, Prof.

Big Whoop is when someone manages to not have mana problems

I'm taking AP Language and Composition right now, so when he said the words "rhetoric" and "ethos", I got the chills

Love your channel, you inspire me to start my own channel (different genre though). You make magic a better experience!

Always great videos prof. Thanks for making it easy to come back into magic and know what is worth to purchase when getting back into the game.

I would be interested to have the Professor show us how much it would cost to buy JUST the new cards printed, for people who pretty much have all of the reprints.

The professor is always fun to watch.

Great video as usual Prof.!! Can't wait to see what you have in store for FaB.

Just have to say that this video was instrumental in my decision to pick up all five of these to try commander and I have not been disappointed.

I thought they should have included the Snarls in the manabase. Made sense since Commander 2021 is tied to the Strixhaven set they are in.

Professor: type tolarian into youtube search thing Crazy Eyes: i thought we were watching scoobydoo

FINALLY! LOL Been waiting for you to upload this video all week lol. I already bought Witherbloom here's hoping I was right 🤞🏾

I am excited about the WitherBloom commander Pre con.

Proxy all singles you need.

I saw, I clicked, I watched.

I love that you showed my two favorite colors in this video Makes me want the orzhov and sonic deck for me and my bros

Loved the video! Great work!