Magic’s Secrets of Strixhaven Set Has Five Commander Decks - Here’s What We Know About Them

Magic: The Gathering continues to thin into Universes Beyond successful its 2026 roadmap, but we’re getting to instrumentality to 2 classical locations from Wizards’ ain universe.

With Lorwyn Eclipsed having launched successful January, we’re heading backmost to Strixhaven and its magic school. Secrets of Strixhaven preorders are up up of motorboat successful precocious April, and conscionable similar past year’s Tarkir: Dragonstorm, it includes a whopping 5 Commander precon decks.

Here’s a rundown of each we cognize truthful far, but beryllium definite to instrumentality - we’ll update this leafage arsenic we perceive more.

All Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes Commander Decks So Far

We don’t get excessively galore sets that person 5 Commander decks, but fixed the past Strixhaven acceptable arrived alongside the Commander 2021 variation precons, it’s possibly not excessively astonishing to spot different 5 decks added successful the aforesaid colour identities of those that came before.

Here’s the lineup, including the little statement connected the container of each precon, arsenic good arsenic their colour identity.

• Lorehold Spirit (Red/White)
  • ‘Leave the graveyard, buff spirits’
• Witherbloom Pestilence (Black/Green)
  • ‘Strategic sacrifices, beingness summation and drain’
• Silverquill Influence (White/Black)
  • ‘Aura control, marque foes combat each other’
• Prismari Artistry (Blue/Red)
  • ‘Cast splashy spells, make elemental attackers’
• Quandrix Unlimited
  • ‘+1/+1 counters, expanding X-spells’

I’ve taken isolated the 2021 Prismari Performance platform and utilized it to enactment unneurotic an Izzet Spellslinger deck, and I indispensable say, it’s large - here’s hoping these decks are arsenic good enactment together.

The Lay of the Land In Commander Decks 2026 So Far

As we covered successful our usher to the Marvel Super Hero Commander Decks, past twelvemonth we got a full of 13 Commander precons. This year, by the clip Marvel launches successful June, we’ll person a twelve to take from. While we don’t cognize if The Hobbit, Reality Fracture, oregon Star Trek volition person precons, it could beryllium an adjacent bigger year.

Lorwyn Eclipsed has 2 decks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has 1 that stars each 5 Turtles, and Marvel is bringing four. Will they each beryllium of a tenable quality, though, oregon should we expect diminishing returns connected the gameplay and fiscal broadside of things? That remains to beryllium seen, but those of america who bask the format volition find astatine slightest 1 platform to gravitate towards, and those of america that person a inclination to cod a fewer astatine a clip volition beryllium good satiated.

It besides means that it’s apt to beryllium easier than ever to get into the format - perfect for anyone with friends looking for an on-ramp to Commander, oregon Magic successful general.

For much connected the game’s existent set, Lorwyn Eclipsed, beryllium definite to cheque retired our database of the champion pursuit cards successful the acceptable close now, and our rundown of its Commander offerings. You tin besides cheque retired our database of the champion Commander precons from caller years that are inactive worthy picking up - including The Lord of the Rings, Fallout, and immoderate large beginner options.

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.