The 14 Best MTG Commander Precon Decks Ranked, 2025

Ranking the best Commander offerings released this year.

Despite it only being August, we’ve now got access to all of the Commander Precon Decks that dropped in 2025. It’s been a very solid year for Commander, with us having some serious bangers in the four sets that have had them. Most of them are in-universe sets, but Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY brought with it four offerings, too.

We’re going to go ahead and rank the best Commander decks of 2025. Overall, there haven’t really been any bad decks as such, just a few that don’t mesh as well as we’d like. There’s an outside chance we could see another Commander Precon Deck from the Secret Lair Drop Series this year (given the randomness of the series), and if that happens, we’ll be sure to add it here, too.

The Best MTG Commander Precon Decks Ranked, 2025

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• Everyone’s Invited! Secret Lair MTG Commander Precon Deck Upgrade Guide

Let’s talk criteria. While the ability to upgrade a deck is a factor here, it’s the lowest option for us. Instead, we’re focusing on how well and how good the deck plays out of the box as our two main factors. Naturally, these are inherently very subjective, but we’ve done our best to consider the overall power of all of these decks as best we can.

#14 Everyone’s Invited (Secret Lair Drop Series)

Secret Lair Commander Deck: Everyone’s Invited! – Double Rainbow Foil Edition

Secret Lair Drop Series

Everyone’s Invited! was this year’s Secret Lair Commander Precon Deck. It’s headed up by the multiple-faced Morophon, the Boundless, and the general theme is that you turn every card into every creature type, and then win! It’s at the bottom here because, while a novel concept, it’s messy. It being a Secret Lair Drop also makes it substantially more expensive and inaccessible for players to purchase. 

#13 Abzan Armor (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Deck – Abzan Armor

Commander: Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Abzan Armor is the weakest of the five Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Decks, but it plays into a unique space that can make it quite fun to play. Felothar the Steadfast enables your creatures to deal damage with their toughness, and ignores any of your Defender effects, but also lets you draw and discard cards. Betor, Ancestor’s Voice doesn’t fit into this strategy at all, mostly caring about losing and gaining life. The Commander Precon Deck feels disjointed and needs tweaking towards one of the two available options.

#12 Jeskai Striker (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Deck – Jeskai Striker

Commander: Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Jeskai Striker is a complicated one from Tarkir: Dragonstorm, where the two Commanders don’t quite line up with the overall strategy. Shiko and Narset, Unified allows you to copy the second spell you cast each turn if it targets a permanent or player; otherwise, you draw a card. Elsha, Threefold Master is all about prowess, which generally wants a lot more than two spells per turn and some aggression to boot. We like both options here, but going for one of the other is a must if you want to get the most out of this Commander Precon Deck.

#11 Revival Trance (MTG—FINAL FANTASY)

FINAL FANTASY Commander Deck – FINAL FANTASY VI Revival Trance

Commander: FINAL FANTASY

Revival Trance is the Final Fantasy 6 (VI) Commander Deck, where it has the iconic Terra, Herald of Hope bringing your creatures back from the graveyard with Celes, Rune Knight strengthening your board state when you do so. This Commander deck is genuinely solid, but it’s also one that can feel a bit messy when looking through the decklist, making it hard to stick to the one plan. We recommend going all-in on Terra or Celes, since they both do slightly different things here.

#10 World Shaper (Edge of Eternities)

Edge of Eternities Commander Deck – World Shaper

Commander: Edge of Eternities

Edge of Eternities’ World Shaper Commander Deck is an exciting one as it focuses on lands and graveyards, but it’s somehow not the most powerful deck to achieve that this year. Hearthhull, the Worldseed allows you to sacrifice lands to draw cards, play even more lands, and deal damage to everyone else when fully stationed. Szarel, Genesis Shepherd offers a different approach by growing your creatures whenever you sacrifice a nontoken permanent while also helping you play land cards from the graveyard. They’re good, but the deck is overall just not as good as most of the offerings this year.

#9 Scions & Spellcraft (MTG—FINAL FANTASY)

FINAL FANTASY Commander Deck – FINAL FANTASY XIV Scions & Spellcraft

Commander: FINAL FANTASY

Scions & Spellcraft is the Final Fantasy 14 (XIV) Commander Deck, and it’s all about casting noncreature spells and dealing damage to each of your opponents. Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed lets you draw cards and deal damage as you cast your three mana (or more) noncreature spells, and G’raha Tia, Scion Reborn lets you pay life to create Hero tokens as you cast those noncreature spells too. The deck is overall a lot of fun to play and has a lot of interesting moment-to-moment decisions, but we wish it had a few more instant spells.

#8 Counter Intelligence (Edge of Eternities)

Edge of Eternities Commander Deck – Counter Intelligence

Commander: Edge of Eternities

Counter Intelligence would be at the top of this list if it were a competition for the most easily breakable card, which would be Kilo, Apogee Mind. Kilo lets you proliferate whenever it’s tapped, which makes it easy to generate infinite counters with just a couple more cards in Pentad Prism and Aura of Dominion. Kilo isn’t utilized in the main deck though. Instead, Kilo and Inspirit, Flagship Vessel want you to put as many charge counters or +1/+1 counters on your artifacts. It’s a fun deck to be sure, make no mistake about that.

#7 Temur Roar (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Deck – Temur Roar

Commander: Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Temur Roar is basically the Dragon Commander Deck for Tarkir: Dragonstorm, and it does a pretty good job of it. Eshki, Temur’s Roar grows whenever you cast big creatures, but can also deal damage to everyone else as you do so, too. With Tarkir: Dragonstorm, the backup Commanders are all Dragons, with Ureni of the Unwritten letting you just slam Dragon cards into play for free when it enters or attacks. It’s just hard to argue with more Dragons.

#6 Limit Break (MTG—FINAL FANTASY)

FINAL FANTASY Commander Deck – FINAL FANTASY VII Limit Break

Commander: FINAL FANTASY

Limit Break is our Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Commander Deck, and an equipment-themed one at that. Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER lets you draw a bunch of cards and potentially create Treasure tokens if Cloud has at least seven power upon attacking. Tifa, Martial Artist is a fantastic new Commander who can generate extra combat steps pretty comfortably. While this deck is strong, its biggest sin is that it’s a little bit uninspiring. Equipment decks are all over the place at the moment, and this one doesn’t feel meaningfully different from the others.

#5 Counter Blitz (MTG—FINAL FANTASY)

FINAL FANTASY Commander Deck – FINAL FANTASY X Counter Blitz

Commander: FINAL FANTASY

Counter Blitz is the laughably good Final Fantasy 10 (X) option, and has you moving counters around all over the place. Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian allows you to move your counters around, lets you draw cards, and proliferate whenever you connect with an opponent. Yuna, Grand Summoner is the backup here, who puts counters on creatures and moves counters around whenever a creature dies. Counters have (and always will be) a pretty strong strategy, and this deck is no different.

#4 Living Energy (Aetherdrift)

Aetherdrift Commander Deck – Living Energy

Commander: Aetherdrift

Living Energy isn’t our first Energy-themed Commander Deck released in Magic: The Gathering, but it’s the strongest one in our opinion. The irony here is that while Saheeli, Radiant Creator’s ability to generate Energy and create token copies of things is decent enough, and Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic and its vehicle making is fun, it’s really the cards within the deck that carry it. Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker alone is absurd, and Rampaging Aetherhood is an absolute powerhouse.

#3 Mardu Surge (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Deck – Mardu Surge

Commander: Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Tarkir: Dragonstorm’s Mardu Surge does what a lot of Aggro decks struggle with, which is holding up against multiple opponents. Zurgo Stormrender not only creates tokens through Mobilize, but then either draws you cards, or forces other players to lose life when any token you control leaves play. Then, Neriv, Crackling Vanguard lets you exile cards from the top of your library based on the number of differently-named tokens you have in play. The two Commanders synergize well, and the result is an Aggro deck that can throw down with the best of them.

#2 Eternal Might (Aetherdrift)

Aetherdrift Commander Deck – Eternal Might

Commander: Aetherdrift

Aetherdrift’s Eternal Might might be the best Zombie Commander Deck we’ve ever had. Temmet, Naktamun’s Will helps you fill up your graveyard and bolster your Zombies every time you attack, and Hashaton, Scarab’s Fist turns those discarded cards into tapped Zombie copies. The synergy here is great; Zombies in general are easy to play and have great synergies, and it’s just a resilient deck overall. 

#1 Sultai Arisen (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Deck – Sultai Arisen

Commander: Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Sultai Arisen is a beast of a Commander Deck in every possible respect. The strategy of self-mill and graveyard synergies is always historically strong, but this deck also throws in several Landfall strategies for funsies. Teval, the Balanced Scale is, despite its name, not a balanced Commander at all, as it does everything you need just when it attacks. Each attack nets you three cards in your graveyard, an extra land in play, and a 2/2 Zombie Druid token as well. Kotis, Sibsig Champion then allows you to play cards from your graveyard too, and becomes stronger itself as you do so. This deck is just incredible and our choice for the best Commander Precon Deck printed this year!