Is It Worth It To Buy An Ixalan Commander Deck? A Lost Caverns Of Magic The Gathering Product Review 

Merfolk Pre-con! :D

i feel like the pirate deck should have included Revel in Riches. 🤔 🤨 mine does, if i cant win by points, or milling a player, or pumping up my pirates.. then getting 10 treasure tokens and protecting revel in riches, I automatically win 😂

Hey prof, just want to let you know that Factor is extremely anti union and abuses its workers regularly.

Has someone notice the bad printing look lower quality in the precons bought the dino and merfolk and they where awful blurry compare to the old cards more noticable in the merkfolks 😢

Factually

Fax!

Damn it you’re so right

You're not wrong!

Agreed

A hidden gem, for sure.

Galavant is the best show ever! It's how my wife and I bonded on our first date!

Yep. Would have loved a third season, but the music was soooo spot on and catchy.

Big same. It even had Weird Al as a monk!

First time I heard about Galavant. When I looked up the Wikipedia entry, I was like "Why was this never on my radar?"

I've been told the same by my shop

I thought they stopped doing that garbage and actually made individual decks available to distributors. A shame if they went back to bundles only.

That makes perfect sense. Thank you for bringing that up!

Just preorder online for ~35 each when they go up before list announcements. Cancel any if you don’t like the list.

@@tbd3058 inventory space is limited, and the store loses money for every item on shelves it can't move.

getting weird al to lead the singing monks... with jaz hands was the absolute best

I'm getting these as the decks just look like a lot of fun to play.

Someone always has to whine about the land base... I can overlook the usual mediocre land base when they put this much effort into the actual meat of the decks. And the 2-color decks don't even need insane land bases anyway.

​@@nanoglitch6693^ This. When the colors are 2 or 3 color I can forgive weaker land bases cuz they aren't as needed for a winning strategy. These decks especially have good synergy outside of the basic strats

Man, I was looking forward to Merfolk for such a long time. I loved my standard deck that was based on the Loreyn Merfolk. But them dinos got me good... Maybe I'll also pick up the Merfolk someday.

Put hakbal in the 99 make it less about explore and more about tapping and untapping and run kumena as ur commander

Glad you like my sense of humor!

@tbd3058 no, I said if I didn't already collect precons anyways I would pick these up for nostalgia.

It is absolutely screwing me up that Ixalan is old enough for people to have nostalgia for it

@Zomburai45 yep, ot was the fall release set for 2017... It was my first semester of college and I saw some guys playing a card game so I watched, next thing I was at the rivals of ixalan prerelease

Me too. Orzhov Vampires is my favorite deck to this day.

I started playing MTG when Avacyn Restored was still in store shelves around 2013... Yep... I'm old.

I am getting precons due to the fact my LGS does Commander Party precon tournaments and the decks are more or less balanced. I gave up on getting into my past LGS events due to the fact that a chunk of people didn't seem to get casual tournaments should be casual and pulled out expensive pay to win decks and in time every event became pretty draining as such pods became one-sided. I want to have fun, not to get a loan to build a deck to match up these few folks.

One-of-each bundles tend to be at or below "MSRP", individual decks are when the markups hit.

Same, got the $137 price when they were announced and could have canceled if the deck lists stank. Not sure why folks are so anti Amazon.

lol lucky you, even my lgs is asking 60 CAD for all of the decks not just the dinosaur one which is not too bad of a mark up.

Good work, me too!

​@@cool2314That's a super lame. As much as I like to go to a locally owned GS, sometimes Amazon is the only affordable way.

I got all 4 for $138USD. The professor is right never pre order and never order magic from Amazon. I usually do both. $138 for 4 has me at or below the price he listed here.

I managed to get the dinosaur deck for $38 with a 5% extra discount from Amazon.

What exactly did you swap out?

@@mjminino I put some more focus on Explore, mainly. Some more straightforward upgrades are Curse of the Swine for a spare Cyclonic Rift, Explore for Enter the Unkown. I dropped Bygone Marvels and Commit//Memory, don't feel like the deck really needs the recursion. Other than that, Commanders Sphere, Kiora's Follower, Prime Speaker Zengana, Surgespanner, Tributary Instructor and Ruinous Intrusions left for various reasons. I've added a Deepfathom Echo, Glowcap Lantern, Path of Discovery, Jadelight Spelunker, Twists and Turns, Wildgrowth Walker, the great Wanderwine Prophets and a Cultivate for some more Ramp. I also, and this is just a personal meme thing, replaced Ravenform with Witness Protection, because I love Witness Protection and run it in more or less any deck with blue interaction pieces. This is a rough first draft, there are a lot more cards I would LIKE to fit (a Deeproot Pilgrimage, for example, which I pulled in foil borderless), and some areas where I will probably need to patch some holes (I am very creature heavy right now, but with a relatively low level of protection and, almost unthinkable for blue, no counterspells), but the precon had so many great cards that it genuinely felt hard to remove stuff at times. I still have not had the time to watch the Command Zone Game Knights episode where the prof played his beefed up version of this deck, I am very curious to see what he did with it.

Yeah I got the vampire deck for 35 before anything was released because I've been meaning to build one and when I started seeing the deck lists I was going to try and get the dino deck but gave up after seeing the price had been jacked up. I'm happy overall considering the whole deck is essentially the cost of an old copy of Exquisite Blood.

It’s Kindred now

Good work, man!

​@@AureaRuiz-kx2erI haven't seen Kindred replacing tribal/typal. My main issue with typal is that it sounds like a card type. My Artifact deck is typal. A primarily instant/sorcery deck may be typal. MTG has card types, so making creature themes typal is just confusing.

I've seen it play, its pretty sneaky but its very synergistic and with a few upgrades I would imagine being very oppressive! (if you're into that kinda thing haha)

MJ Holdings has the best interest of the players and collectors of TCG's.

Before it's time, for sure.