Lathril, Blade of the Elves - $30 Commander Pre-con Upgrade - Command Valley

Landon takes on the new Elf Commander Pre-con deck's upgrades. These decks are so finely tuned, what are the cards to keep in, and what doesn't make the cut?
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1 Birchlore Rangers
1 Copperhorn Scout
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Immaculate Magistrate
1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Priest of Titania
1 Wood Elves
1 Beast Within
1 Return of the Wildspeaker
1 Vitalize
1 Wirewood Pride
1 Driven
1 Lead the Stampede
1 Shamanic Revelation
1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh

[@CommandValley]

Whoops, somehow missed that Wood Elves was already in the deck. I cannot stress enough how hard it was to come up with these replacements! We recommend Yavimaya Dryad as a replacement for Farhaven Elf instead, a little bit more versatile of a ramping elf. Thanks for understanding!

[@victorcarrillo2151]

XD I ordered your recommended cards and missed that too, now I have to decided which art should I keep in the deck

[@dylanwilliams8007]

NEEDS rings of brightearth. 2 mana drop and 2 mana to copy an activated ability. Deal 20 and gain 20

[@dylanwilliams8007]

Can’t remember the name of it but there’s also a card that says whenever you gain life deal that much damage to target opponent so you could one shot someone with that combo

[@EnterTheRobinRealm]

@@dylanwilliams8007 If anyone's like me and really likes this combo, this card is Sanguine Bond, have fun

[@EJsGameplay]

Unless your goal is to include 0 lands that enter tapped (which would be fair), I see no reason to cut Path of Ancestry.

[@dennisfernandes1675]

this land is nuts on this deck, turn 1 and scry everysingle of your future turns

[@no2hiswear]

I love tribal decks and I’ve been wanting to build a life drain deck but couldn’t find the right commander... this is a match made in heaven for me

[@rouge1297]

Thank you for this video, I'm brand new to Magic and am building my first commander deck ever. Really appreciated the card suggestions and explanations you provide

[@danielcarrillo4800]

i always get to know cards on your deck techs!!!

[@luisernestomedinavalles5946]

nice work! thanks

[@invertedname3099]

When you started listing off so many cut cards my heart sunk lol. “But...my elves!”

[@LibertyFixxxer]

Almost ALL the other precon upgrade videos on this precon move towards elfball strategy with infinite combos. I SUPER appreciate yours with the combat damage route and taking advantage of the commander fully. I think it is a more fair strategy, especially since my play group is not super competitive.

[@invertedname3099]

I actually really dig this commander. I also love these commander precons coming out with each set. I hope they keep the long term. So often wotc will introduce something and it’ll die off fast. I like these as they give us more guided commander options for newer mechanics that don’t have much otherwise.

[@chrisnoble8677]

Vorrac Battlehorns would be a fantastic addition to the deck as well! 😁

[@chapinblaze9712]

You’ve taken 17 out and added 18 in, I imagine that was apart of the wood elves mixup

[@bofdar]

All of the deck techs I have seen for this particular precon have been very good, I wish the other got the same love!

[@CommandValley]

We'll be releasing an upgrade video for the Ranar deck sometime soon!

[@madscientist2621]

Great deck tech! I believe Wood Elves is included in the box!

[@CommandValley]

Great catch! Going to make a pinned comment now, but we recommend Yavimaya Dryad as a replacement instead.

[@dess8815]

@@CommandValley Seed born muse is a little more crazy oh dear good 😲😲😲😲

[@EJsGameplay]

@@dess8815 If it's not out of budget or you already have one, hell yeah.

[@dess8815]

@@EJsGameplay Murk fiend is also good and don't worry I have 8 seed borns and 7 murk fiends lol

[@jka97]

Got to say, I'm not a big elf tribal kind of guy but this deck tech is spicy!

[@masenwilliamson799]

Lithoform engine, rings of brighthearth and staff of domination. Any of these would be good additions

[@000frozensnake]

Do you have another suggestion for Wood Elves since its already in the deck?

[@CommandValley]

Great catch! Going to make a pinned comment now, but we recommend Yavimaya Dryad as a replacement.

[@nickatwork]

Would love to see what you recommend taking out of the pre-con too!

[@andonus]

He outlines the removals at 4:26 🙂

[@nickatwork]

@@andonus somehow missed it! thanks!

[@LibertyFixxxer]

should I run heritage druid if I have one?

[@pearcehubbart3767]

I want vito in mine just for a cheap extra 10 damage from that ability. Also get rid of sol ring.

[@edoardobianchi7846]

which is the best preconstructed deck to buy?

[@CommandValley]

That’s a great question, and a hard one to answer. Out of all the most recent sets, our conclusion is basically that they all stand a good chance at being good, balanced decks. So I would say choose this: choose the deck that has the play style that you like the most! They’re all unique in that aspect and it’s really up to the player to decide. Out of the two that just came out, although we haven’t had time to properly test them, I would say that the Lathril elf tribal deck has the stronger pool of upgrades to choose from, as Elf Tribal has been a solid strategy almost since the dawn of magic. Half of Ranar’s abilities revolve around a new mechanic that just came out, and the other half takes a bit to make really work. That said, I would guess that these decks work fantastically when played against each other and either one would be really fun to play depending on your style. - Peter

[@edoardobianchi7846]

@@CommandValley thank you very much. But if i want to buy a preconstructed deck from the last 4-5 years? Which One do you suggest?

[@CommandValley]

Great question, and honestly it’s one that we don’t really have a good answer for. I’d follow the advice of buying the play style that you click with and going from there. Looking that far back there are definitely some amazing decks that are now, unfortunately, priced higher than they probably should be, so you have to take price into account. My personal recommendation would be to look at the $20 pre-cons from the last couple of years, and also look at any of the previous precons besides the ones from 2019 and 2020 for the highest quality ones. The 2019 ones seemed underpowered and didn’t have a lot of meaningful overly applicable power to them, having a lot of specific niche cards, and the 2020 decks also suffer from being a bit underpowered and require considerable upgrades.

[@CommandValley]

My personal favorite buy was Lord Windgrace from Commander 2018, for a Jund lands-matter commander that’s really good at what he does and has a lot of value in the deck by itself.

[@edoardobianchi7846]

@@CommandValley thank you very much

[@joshuahines2263]

So I saw you added a wood elves and the deck come with one 😜

[@CommandValley]

Thanks for reading our pinned comment! - Peter

[@joshuahines2263]

Sooooooo I did not read the pinned comment 😂😂😂. But you are not wrong. You definitely want to change out the wood elves art cause the new one is not nearly as cool 😎😎😎

[@sergiotamezvilla4756]

Aluren... Cloudstone curio...ashaya ......sorin markov

[@MARCOSANTONIO-nuhqgmrp2]

which cards i remove ??

[@tonyontilt3522]

4:25

[@tonyontilt3522]

I think cutting Wolverine Riders is a huge mistake, elves make so much mana & that card is busted. I get it, you don't want too many high cmc elves but each upkeep happens a lot in a 4 player game.