Magic: The Gathering – You're Better Off Just Buying Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate's Precon Decks

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With Magic: The Gathering’s newest Commander Legends set out in people’s decks already, the overall response to Battle For Baldur’s Gate has been muted, to say the least. Though the flavour is on-point, and there are dozens of references to Dungeons & Dragons and the beloved cast of Baldur’s Gate, criticism has been levied at the set’s overall lower power level and its overreliance on combat-forcing mechanics like goad, initiative, and myriad. It’s a great set, but not quite the all-time great of its predecessor.

However, a single aspect of Battle for Baldur’s Gate may go down in history as one of the best: its preconstructed Commander decks. Containing a fully functional Commander deck full of great reprints and new exclusives, if you’re planning on picking up any of Baldur’s Gate, you’ll be much better served just grabbing a couple of those instead.

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Ever since 2020’s Zendikar Rising, Wizards’ annual Commander series has been augmented with at least two Commander precons coming with every major set. Some of them have been fantastic, like Kaldheim’s Elven Empire and Spirit Squadron, while others – like Innistrad: Midnight Hunt’s Coven Counters – were less appealing. Though none of them have been bad, it’s safe to say Battle for Baldur’s Gate puts so many of them to shame with how much fire they’re packing.

Alongside the set came four decks, and it could have been so easy for Wizards to just play up the draft archetypes of the main set. Nobody would have batted an eyelid if it retrod the same mechanical spaces – a black/white Aristocrats, or a green/black graveyard deck, for example. Instead, it did something radically