Commander 2021 or Strixhaven Commander is bringing us five new pre-constructed Commander decks! There’s one for each of the five Strixhaven colleges:
- Lorehold
- Prismari
- Quandrix
- Silverquill
- Witherbloom
In this article we’ll take a look at all Commander 2021 decklists, and explore what each of the decks is trying to do. Let’s get to it.
Lorehold Legacies
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Commander 2021 decks are starting off strong! Lorehold has a very interesting take on the red-white combination. This color combo is usually somewhat weak in Commander, as it’s often focused solely on attacking. However, that isn’t the case here.
This deck focuses both on artifact and graveyard interactions. Osgir the Reconstructor is an amazing commander, which encapsulates the strategy perfectly.
The first ability doesn’t provide a powerful effect, but it be used as an effective sacrifice outlet for artifacts. However, its second ability is where the real value is. You can get two artifacts for the price of one!
It can also be used as a powerful ramp engine. You can exile something like Hedron Archive to immediately get your mana investment back.
You’ll also want to add something Ancient Den and Great Furnace as both work amazingly with Osgir. You can tap it for zero mana, and exile one artifact land from your graveyard, to get two artifact land tokens into play. Now that’s some serious ramp in a color that’s mostly lacking in that category.
All in all, this deck looks really fun to play, especially if you’re looking for a fresh take on the red-white combination. If you want, you can get one on Amazon.
Lorehold Legacies – Exciting Cards
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Prismari Performance
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Prismari might look like Izzet at the first sight – casting instant and sorceries is basically their whole gist, right? However, Prismari have their own twist, as can be seen from Zaffai, Thunder Conductor. While casting cheap instants and sorceries is still fine, you really get big payoffs for casting expensive ones.
For every instant or sorcery, you get to srcy 1. If that spell’s mana value was at least five, you get a 4/4 Elemental on top of that. If its mana mana value was 10 or more, you also do 10 damage to a random opponent.
Your best friends will naturally be instant and sorceries with X in their costs. They are already very flexible, but now you can get additional value from them with the help of Zaffai.
This is a great Commander 2021 deck for anyone who enjoys casting big spells. If you want to try it, you can buy it on Amazon.
Prismari Performance – Exciting Cards
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Quantum Quandrix
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Do you like making tokens? If so, you’re gonna love Adrix and Nev, Twincasters and their Quantum Quandrix deck.
Ward is a new, slightly nerfed version of hexproof. It makes it a bit harder to deal with Twincasters, but by not means impossible.
However, all the value is centered in the second ability, which is really amazing. You get Anointed Procession or Parallel Lives in your Command Zone, so you can truly build around the token strategy.
You can really do some powerful stuff with this card, but perhaps the most insane interaction is with the Helm of the Host (not included in the deck). If you equip your commander with it and nobody interacts with it, you’ll have 2059 Twincasters in three turns, which is pretty bonkers.
If you want to play Quantum Quandrix, (which looks like the most powerful out of all Commander 2021 decks) you can order it on Amazon.
Quantum Quandrix – Exciting Cards
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Silverquill Statement
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Silverquill Statement has perhaps the most unique commander out of all Commander 2021 decks. Breena, the Demagogue isn’t the most powerful commander out there, however it play into multiplayer politics like not other card does.
It rewards all players for attacking – but not attacking just anyone – nobody will get a bonus if they attack you or the weakest player at the table. It’s a really cool effect, which adds more focus on attacking. This can push the game in a fun new direction, so players won’t just durdle around waiting for someone to combo off.
The downside is that the rest of the deck lacks some clear focus, and mostly contains just good black and white cards. However, if you do like these type of cards, the deck can definitely provide some fun game play.
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Witherbloom Witchcraft
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In the main set, Witherbloom has many life gain cards. Willowdusk is a payoff for those strategies, but also has an upside if you lost a bunch of life. It’s another commander that isn’t in-your-face powerful, but it does enable some interesting play patterns.
The deck has plenty of interesting mini combos, mostly built around gaining or losing life.
Witherbloom Witchcraft – Exciting Cards
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Commander 2021 – Additional Information
Here’s some more information about the Strixhaven Commander decks. If you have a question, that we didn’t answer feel free to leave a comment below.
The release date of Commander 2021 is April 23, 2021.
These decks aren’t the budget versions with only a few cards per deck, like the ones we got with Kaldheim and Zendikar Rising. These are more powerful precons, like the ones we got from Ikoria. Each deck contains 20 or more cards that are either exclusive to the deck, or also appear in the main Strixhaven set.
You can also get each deck with minimal packaging. They don’t have the usual big packaging, these decks regularly do, but come in a more bland box. However, a paper deck box is still included.
Commander 2021 – Conclusion
That’s all about the Strixhaven Commander 2021 decks. Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below. If you want to know more about them, you can find the best Commander 2021 cards here.
Interested in other Commander pre-constructed decks? You can find a list of all Commander precons here.
If you’ll buy a new Commander deck, you might also want some new deck boxes and sleeves. You can find the best deck boxes for Commander here and best MTG sleeves, that won’t split easily here.
Until next time, have fun, and may your new Commander 2021 deck provide a ton of fun and amazing games.
Under your Lorehold decklist entry, you include Hedron Archive.
Yet, in the body of the article you say “You can exile something like Hedron Archive (which sadly isn’t included in the deck)”
I am confusion
Oops, I’ve somehow missed it. Thanks for letting me know, i removed that part out of the article.
In the Prismari Performance deck what do you think of adding Zada Hedron Grinder.
In the Twincaster and helm of the host interaction, I don’t think you would have exponential growth of your twincasters, since copies don’t copy equipment.
From the wiki:
“ Counters on the object being copied and objects attached to it, such as Auras or Equipment, are not copied, and neither are the effects granted by them.”
You are correct – in that copies do not copy the equipment. However, they don’t have to in order to have exponential growth, as the abilities of multiple Twincaster tokens stack quite nicely.
First, you’d get one token, but the first Twincaster doubles it, so you get two.
Next turn you have three, so when you get one token, it gets doubled three times and you end up with 11 Twincasters (3 old ones, 8 new ones).
Next turn, similarly, the token gets doubled 11 times, so you get 2048 new ones, and you end up with 2059.
Hopefully, this clears things up. :)
hey
eny chance you could explain the math here?
not sure what to punch in on my calculater…
nevermind i figured it out its 1*2^X where X is the number of twincasters…
Correct!