Magic’s Heading Back to Foundations With New Starter Precons – Here’s Where To Get Them

Magic: The Gathering already promised a full big of sets from Marvel to Star Trek successful 2026, but caller from MagicCon Las Vegas, we present cognize we’re getting a caller batch of Commander precons for Foundations.

New to Magic oregon request a refresher? Foundations debuted successful 2024, offering a acceptable that would beryllium ineligible successful Standard rotation for longer than different sets, but with Commander being the game’s astir fashionable format, it’s going to marque its beingness felt determination successful October, too.

Here’s each you request to cognize astir the mono-color Commander precons, and wherever to bargain them.

These $30 Commander Decks Will Be Popular

We don’t yet cognize what cards volition beryllium included successful each of the 5 Commander decks from this Foundations set, but we bash cognize each volition beryllium priced astatine a $29.99 MSRP. That’s a crisp driblet from newer precons and should assistance newcomers cheque retired the format.

Will they clasp up to scrutiny oregon disrupt the powerfulness equilibrium of a array of established players? It’s unlikely, but with beardown tribal synergies, they whitethorn conscionable beryllium a fantastic starting point, particularly since they’re mono-colored. That’s not each that communal successful caller years.

Green gets the aptly-named Tramplesaurus Rex deck, which is each astir large creatures, portion Red is, arsenic you’d expect, each astir aggression and filled with dragons successful Reign of Dragons.

Blue players get the artifact and Thopter-focused Keen Engineering precon, White gets Calling All Angels, portion Wretched Ranks volition person those playing successful Black raising the dormant successful nary time.

These decks are each $29.99, which is great, but if they’re arsenic fashionable arsenic I fishy they mightiness be, that whitethorn not enactment the lawsuit for long. The 2021 Starter Decks ended up priced each implicit the place, with Draconic Destruction being a existent outlier (it inactive is successful the UK).

If you’re funny successful picking up each five, there’s a bundle for $149.95, too. Honestly, astatine this price, I whitethorn drawback a mates to thatch friends however to play without leaning into Secrets of Strixhaven’s heavy database of mechanics.

For much connected Magic: The Gathering, cheque retired our usher to preordering the upcoming acceptable based connected The Hobbit, arsenic good arsenic our ranking of the Secrets of Strixhaven Commander precons.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.