When Foundations set was released back in November 2024, players were quite surprised that there were no Commander precons released alongside it. However, an even bigger surprise followed a couple of years later.
In May 2026, Wizards announced five Foundations Commander precons coming October 2, 2026 alongside the Reality Fracture set.
If you’re wondering what they’re all about, you’ve come to the right place! Today we’re exploring everything we know about these decks so far, alongside what we know about these decks so far.
What Are Foundations Commander Precons?
These are five 100-card preconstructed Commander decks meant for beginners. They are less complex than regular Commander precons and feature a lower price. (MSRP: $29.99)
This solves two major problems for new players joining Magic’s most popular format. First, the decks can be quite complex and second, it’s hard to justify spending fifty bucks on a game you might not even like.
On top of that, it’s also a great tool to get other players into a game. You could pickup a set of all five decks, and use them as a self contained board game. What’s not to like?
Foundations Commander Precons — Contents
In each deck you’ll find:
- 1 foil mythic rare card (main commander)
- 99 regular cards
- 10 double-sided tokens
- a cardboard deck box
- a strategy guide
- a reference card
There are no reprints in the deck, but main commanders feature new artwork.
Each deck is a mono-colored one and highlights a key part of that color’s identity. Anyhow, let’s take a look at the decks and see exactly what we’re talking about.
Calling All Angels
- Color: White
- Theme: Angels
- Commander: Giada, Font of Hope
- Calling All Angels Decklist
First up, a white deck full of Angels, the iconic creature type of this color. It’s going to be interesting to see which Angels Wizards decide to include.
Sure, something like Avacyn, Angel of Hope is too expensive to appear in a thirty dollar deck, but you’ll get other powerful Angels that are more budget-friendly. (Such as Lyra Dawnbringer and Linvala, the Preserver for example.)
Giada, Font of Hope is a perfect commander for such a deck. She ramps you toward your more expensive Angels, while making them even larger. On top of that, she costs just two mana, which is almost as cheap as it gets with this creature type.
This is a great choice if you like playing fair but powerful decks, and enjoy the artwork of various Magic Angels.
Keen Engineering
- Color: Blue
- Theme: Artifacts & Thopters
- Commander: Sai, Master Thopterist
Next up a blue precon that wants to deploy lots of artifacts, including Thopter tokens.
Artifacts can be a powerful card type and can make for some absurdly powerful plays. This specific deck will likely be a bit tamer, as it’s still aimed at beginners. However, this still leaves plenty of room for improvement, if you ever wish to upgrade it. Perhaps even switch to Urza, Lord High Artificer as your main commander option.
But there’s no need to do so as, Sai, Master Thopterist is a pretty solid option. He makes Thopters and gives you a way to turn your artifacts into new cards.
As such, Keen Ingineering precon will feel great to players who like gimmicky strategies with lots of decisions.
Wretched Ranks
- Color: Black
- Theme: Zombies & Sacrifice
- Commander: Ghoulcaller Gisa
- Wretched Ranks Decklist
This deck combines two themes that naturally play well together. The first one are Zombies, which often appear in black. While they might not be the largest creatures, they often refuse to die and are hard to get rid off completely.
That works nicely with the second theme — sacrifice. Some cards require you to sacrifice one or more of your creatures for a powerful effect. With Zombies, that cost is negligible, as you can easily bring them back.
Both of the themes are also represented on deck’s main commander, Ghoulcaller Gisa. She’s actually one of the more popular mono black commanders, as it can enable some fascinating play patterns.
Players who don’t mind sacrificing their game pieces in order to get ahead in the game, will enjoy the choices this deck provides. Particularly if their favorite show was the Walking Dead. (At least the early seasons, before it all went down the drain.)
Reign of Dragons
- Color: Red
- Theme: Dragons & Treasures
- Commander: Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Reign of Dragons Decklist
Whereas the previous deck features smaller Zombies, this one goes into completely different direction, as it soars to the skies with large fire-breathing Dragons.
This deck doesn’t play small ball, but wants to go big. Its commander, Lathliss, Dragon Queen is already an expensive Dragon, but rewards you only when you cast additional Dragons afterwards.
With so many expensive creatures, you’re going to need some way to get them out early, and it’s a good thing that Dragons like Treasures. Those artifact tokens will help you develop your game plan.
Reign of Dragons precon is thus a nice choice for players who like big an flashy plays. If we borrow another example from a chow that started great and ended poorly: Game of Thrones fans, this one is for you.
Tramplesaurus Rex
- Color: Green
- Theme: Large Dinosaurs
- Commander: Ghalta, Primal Hunger
This final deck is actually kinda similar to the previous one in that it also features large creatures. This time they’re even larger, but they don’t fly.
With this deck you’ll ramp into enormous Dinousaurs that will typically be bigger than anything else in play. One of the more absurd plays you can make is to cast your commander Ghalta, Primal Hunger for just two mana. Yeah, that’s a 12/12 trample for just a couple of lands.
This is a solid pickup for players who want to cast large monsters first and foremost and don’t mind a more straightforward game plan.
Conclusion
So, that wraps up our quick overview of the belated Foundations Commander decks. Do you think these will be a nice pickup for new players? Will you also pickup some of them? Let us know in the comments below.
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Until next time, enjoy playing Magic and may your starting hands always be perfect!
The Amazon listing says it’s Ghoulcaller Gisa for the black one, btw.
Thanks, I missed that one at first.
Begginer decks maybe, but blue artifacts? Giada? Ghalta? These decks go from Begginer decks to bracket 4 so easily
Yeah, all of these commanders can be pretty strong with the right supporting cast. That’s great way to go with beginner decks, make them casual and straightforward, but leave plenty of room for improvement. This way players can learn the game, and still eventually upgrade the decks to keep with their play groups’s power level.