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Commander and Preconstructed Deck

Discover our Magic Commander Decks and Starter Kits: 100 ready-to-play cards, themed decks by expansion, Final Fantasy and TMNT crossovers, multi-deck bundles to test several archetypes.

The Commander format has become the most popular in Magic, and preconstructed Commander Decks are the official entry point: 100 ready-to-play cards centered around a Commander, balanced by Wizards and legal in EDH right out of the box. This category includes single-card Commander decks or decks bundled from expansions (Secrets of Strixhaven, Tarkir Dragonstorm, Bloomburrow, Gates of Eternity), Final Fantasy and TMNT crossovers, and Starter Kits for getting started in dueling.

Commander and Preconstructed Deck

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Commander / EDH, the Format That Became King

The Commander format, also known by the acronym EDH (Elder Dragon Highlander), has gone from a fringe casual format to the most played format in Magic: The Gathering in just ten years. Designed for multiplayer games (typically four players), it imposes a deck construction of exactly 100 cards, with only one copy allowed of each card except basic lands, and a Commander played face-up at the start of the game that determines the colors and strategic direction of the deck. This constraint forces creativity and explains why each Commander deck is a personal signature rather than a mathematically optimized creation.

Commander Deck Structure

A Commander deck contains exactly 100 cards: a Commander (a legendary creature or planeswalker designated as such) and 99 other cards. The singleton rule (only one copy per card) applies to the entire deck except for basic lands. Playable colors are dictated by the Commander's color identity: a blue-black Commander can only have blue, black, or colorless cards in its deck. The Commander is placed in a special zone called the Command Zone at the start of the game and can return there each time it is destroyed, at an increasing mana cost.

Preconstructed Commander Decks: The Wizards Annual Ecosystem

Wizards of the Coast releases between four and six Preconstructed Commander Decks per major set each year, each built around a different Commander and a distinct archetype (tribal, combo, control, aggro-reanimate). These decks are designed by Wizards' dedicated Commander team, internally tested, and delivered ready to play: the box contains 100 pre-sorted cards, two themed tokens, a deckbox specifically for the deck, and sometimes a bonus card with an extended finish. A player can take a pre-con Commander Deck out of the box and participate in an official Commander game within the hour, without any modifications.

Starter Kit: The Two-Deck Duel Format

The Starter Kit is a separate format from the Commander Deck: it contains two 60-card decks designed to duel in Standard, using the basic Constructed format rules. Each Starter Kit is designed for two players starting out with Magic together: a parent and child, two friends who want to try the game without making a large investment, or an existing player introducing a newcomer. Starter Kits cover recent expansions and generally include a rulebook and reference cards to clarify the mechanics.

Expansion Decks in Our Catalog

Secrets of Strixhaven offers a set of five French Commander Decks based on the academy's five colleges. Tarkir: Dragonstorm and Bloomburrow are available in English sets of five and four decks respectively, each centered on a clan (Tarkir) or an animal species (Bloomburrow). MTG x Final Fantasy offers a set of four Commander Decks and a Starter Kit, featuring Commanders directly from the Square Enix saga (Cloud, Yuna, Tidus, Cid). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles offers a dedicated Commander Deck built around the turtle siblings. Gates of Eternity includes two Commander Decks that introduce new mechanics to the format.


Play as is, modify, or collect

The preconstructed Commander Deck lends itself to three distinct uses. Play immediately: The deck is balanced, legal, and thematic; it holds its own against other precon decks without difficulty. Modify to increase power: The EDH community has documented upgrade guides for virtually every precon deck, with costs ranging from around twenty to several hundred euros depending on the target level (casual, optimized, competitive cEDH). Collect the Commander: For fans of a specific character (Cloud, Leonardo, Shanks, Jace), the precon deck is often the most direct way to obtain their card-accurate Commander version.