Brahma
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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I haven't played in a long time so not sure what has come out recently or will be in stock, but get a couple precons that have themes you like and just learn to play first. Also depending what stores you go to they may have all sorts of older ones still in stock that speak to you.
Generally colors are aligned this way:
White: buff/protection/healing
Blue: counters/tricks/spells
Red: burn/attack creatures
Green: tokens/big creatures/creature buffs
Black: sacrifice/power/discard/mill
So commanders color palette dictates sorta what themes they use above. So Red/Green will likely be something along the lines of aggressive creatures and burn/growth spells.
Precons are meant to be generally straightforward and a good way to learn the basics of the game, so while there are all sorts of crazy off-color effects and way more nuance, you get a feel just by reading the tin what the deck is good for.
IMO a good FLGS is worth finding so I would drive around or find one and patronize them if the opportunity exists.
Brahma
Obi-Bro Kenobi-X
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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It's not a good time to fully jump in, the game is in late stage woke cash grab territory right now.
Ask the guys you work with what the power level of their decks is and limit yourself to one similar power deck to play with them and limit your financial liability for now.
Like are they using a store bought deck, something they made themselves from boosters, something reasonably priced they copied from the internet or max power cards?
Just buy what you need.
Also get a vibe for the kinds of decks they play. Are they having long games attacking with creatures, or comboing out in a few turns? Do they get to play their cards or is there a lot of counterspells and kill cards?
You don't want to show up with a weak deck and get crushed, or destroy them with a powerful/unfun deck and ruin their fun.
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OneofOne
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Funnily enough I just bought many of those vampire cards for one of my own commander decks. $250 is certainly on the high side for that and you're really just paying (a lot) for the convenience of someone already having all the cards in one place.
If I may suggest some purchase options. The first has 4 commander decks, at least 2 of which are good, and one is a vampire deck. The second link is to another recent set of 4 commander decks. They're so so, but it's a really good price for all 4 and lets you try different things. Third set is another 4 commander decks from a recent set, on a plane with sentient animals (mostly bats, rabbits, rats, raccoons, etc) in case that's not your thing. Fun decks though.
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If I may suggest some purchase options. The first has 4 commander decks, at least 2 of which are good, and one is a vampire deck. The second link is to another recent set of 4 commander decks. They're so so, but it's a really good price for all 4 and lets you try different things. Third set is another 4 commander decks from a recent set, on a plane with sentient animals (mostly bats, rabbits, rats, raccoons, etc) in case that's not your thing. Fun decks though.
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Brahma
Obi-Bro Kenobi-X
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I grabbed Lord of the Rings commander deck (Just to have it) , and a zombie deck which I think I will like.
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