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Starter Commander Decks

Dec 2022

Five two-colour starter decks built as an entry point into Commander — the allied colour pairs, one straightforward plan each, and a foil-etched commander on the front of the box.

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Starter Commander Decks Precon Decks — click to analyze

Jump to a decklistFirst FlightGrave DangerChaos IncarnateDraconic DestructionToken Triumph

First Flight — full decklist

All 100 cards, as published by Wizards of the Coast.

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Grave Danger — full decklist

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Chaos Incarnate — full decklist

All 100 cards, as published by Wizards of the Coast.

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Draconic Destruction — full decklist

All 100 cards, as published by Wizards of the Coast.

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Token Triumph — full decklist

All 100 cards, as published by Wizards of the Coast.

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Artifacts (6)

Enchantments (11)

Lands (39)

Card names link to Scryfall. Decklist on Moxfield

Wizards' First Real Attempt at a Beginner Commander Deck

The Starter Commander Decks arrived on December 2, 2022: five two-colour, 100-card Commander decks sold separately for around 21 US dollars each. Every box contains one foil-etched legendary commander, 99 non-foil cards including the lands, ten double-sided tokens and a deck box. At roughly half the price of a standard Commander precon, they were built to be the cheapest legitimate way to hand someone a real Commander deck.

The five decks cover the allied colour pairs. First Flight is white-blue fliers, Grave Danger is blue-black Zombies, Chaos Incarnate is black-red, Draconic Destruction is red-green Dragons and Token Triumph is green-white tokens. Restricting each deck to two allied colours is the design decision that makes the product work for beginners: the mana base is simple, the colour pair has an obvious identity, and nobody loses a game because they could not cast the cards in their hand.

Each deck also has exactly one thing it is trying to do, stated on the commander. That matters more for a first deck than card quality does. A player can read Emmara, Soul of the Accord once and understand that the deck makes Soldiers and then attacks with them, which is not true of a typical Commander precon carrying three overlapping subthemes.

The Five Decks

First Flight (white-blue) is led by Isperia, Supreme Judge, a 6/4 flier who lets you draw a card whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, turning being attacked into an advantage. Empyrean Eagle and Favorable Winds lift the team, Sephara, Sky's Blade protects it, and Storm Herd finishes with an army in the air. Grave Danger (blue-black) is Gisa and Geralf, who mill four on entry and then let you cast one Zombie a turn straight out of your graveyard, so the deck actively wants cards in the bin. Cemetery Reaper and Diregraf Captain reward the count and Havengul Lich turns the graveyard into a second hand.

Chaos Incarnate (black-red) is Kardur, Doomscourge, who forces every opposing creature to attack, and to attack someone other than you, then drains a life for each attacker that dies. It is the most political deck of the five — the board empties out, the other three players take the damage, and Kaervek the Merciless makes every point of it hurt more. Draconic Destruction (red-green) is Atarka, World Render, who gives every attacking Dragon double strike; Dragonspeaker Shaman and Dragonlord's Servant make the curve payable and Dragon Tempest converts each arrival into damage.

Token Triumph (green-white) is Emmara, Soul of the Accord, a two-mana legend who makes a 1/1 lifelinking Soldier every time she taps — including when she taps for convoke, which is the trick the whole deck is built on. March of the Multitudes and Scatter the Seeds widen the board and Overrun converts it into a win.

Are the Starter Commander Decks Still Worth It in 2026?

They have been superseded. In October 2026 Wizards replaced them with the Foundations Commander decks, which take the same idea further by going mono-coloured and by putting a borderless foil commander on the front of every box. The overlap between the two products is substantial rather than incidental: 58 of the 337 distinct cards in Starter Commander Decks appear again in Foundations Commander, so a good deal of the 2022 skeleton was kept and rebuilt around simpler mana.

That does not make these decks bad, and the two-colour lists are arguably the better teaching tool for a second deck rather than a first one. A player who has learned one colour with Foundations Commander and wants to learn how two colours interact will find the allied pairs here well chosen. They are also cheap on the secondary market in a way the newer product is not yet.

What they are not is powerful. These are the weakest Commander precons Wizards has released in the modern era by design, sitting at the bottom of Bracket 2 and losing to a normal precon more often than not. If you are bringing one to a table, run it through EDHcheck first — the analysis shows the power level, the WotC bracket and the specific cards dragging the list down, which is the shortest route to a version of the deck that can hold its own.

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