Is It Worth It To Buy A Bloomburrow Commander Deck? | Magic: The Gathering

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[paulreckless]

Dear prof. I love your slapstick comedy like letting a deck fall from your hand and then reveal an identical one from your jacket.
Its just genius.

[Spuntzy]

Good luck on your pre release everyone

[pigfish]

It cannot be overstated that these commander decks are millions times more playable than the intro decks of old. Those 60 card "decks" were basically chaff, with two preset rares.

Being able to have a good predefined deck with obvious ways to upgrade it is amazing. You aren't going to get high power EDH right out of the box, but put it in a 4 player game, and it will be able to at least pull it's own weight.

I wish we had 60 card deck versions of these decks back in the intro deck days.

[vidiottheowl]

I'm personally glad there's a group hug deck cause I'm using these to teach some friends mtg

update: we all had a lot of fun, and Ms. Bumbleflower got really big really fast

[bachpachary]

I have fallen in and out of MtG a few times since starting in Amonket. Every time I come back your videos make me feel that excitement of first getting into a hobby again

[maxvincent]

They should've made more hamsters. My Minsc & Boo deck would've loved it! Still love the set

[stardust]

Sadly, a lot of stores in my area are inflating the price of the Squirrel deck and some have even hiked up the price on some of the others strictly based off current tcgplayer trends. It’s ass. MSRP needs to return(fat chance).

[JohnsCarnivorousPlants]

Peace Offering is definitely a great buy for anyone looking to dabble in Group Hug. The deck is extremely fun to play and succeeds when played with an expert player. Being able to force discards on end steps and knowing when to trigger Ms. Bumbleflower is huge for gaining advantage. The gift mechanic is extremely potent and the recon is strangely resilient. It leads to long games though because of your opponents likely having swingy turns and you giving out answers in the form of card draw.

[Nephalem]

I got my Squirrel Deck very early, and when I tested last week it was AMAZING.

[wulfrik]

Was inspired by Wubby to get into MTG and picking up my first sets today. My wife and I are getting the hug and animated decks. Thanks for the educational videos!

[JellyPengu]

Commander precons are getting better and better every time, i remember back in 2015, they kind of hard sucked, was rough upgrading my Daxos the returned. So happy to see how good precons became

[goblinscrewdriver]

Honestly, I think the criticisms of Peace Offering and group hug in general are a little overblown. Sure if you’re a new player AND your goal is to win games, then yeah it’s a little challenging and unintuitive to pilot. In my experience though, I find a lot of new players who are being introduced through commander just enjoy being able to interact with the game and other players. And group hug decks are great at that. It also gives everyone else a gameplay incentive to go easy on the new player. So I think having that kind of deck exist as an option is great and Peace Offering doesn’t deserve a reduced grade solely for being a group hug deck.

[davidjohnson]

Every time I go to a prerelease I get an extra kit and put it on a shelf because I want to do a chaos prerelease with my friends. Got them as far back as Strixhaven! I think it’s an awesome idea for an event. Can’t wait to join in Vegas!

[criticalblaster]

I literally just started playing Magic last week because the trailers for the cards were so adorable. It's been fun. Can't wait for next week.

[kaiser]

The red/green one is incredibly fun to play out of the box. I think it can also become really powerful if you focus on big vehicles, since the Commander makes them into creatures so you don't need to crew them

[SmashedFish]

I'm glad to hear all of these decks are solid! I'm excited to pick up Peace Offering and probably also Family Matters when my budget allows. Thank you for your expert analysis as always and I'm excited to see some Standard in SUP!

[danielkuttel]

You know when its a true relaxing Friday evening: A new eposode from the prof is always a delight

[CoolJoePwns]

Great breakdown, as always. I appreciate that you take the time to speak to the fun and playability of each deck, rather than purely the financial value. One note, I don't see any big box stores, or FLGS's, selling these for $40. It seems like everyone is selling for $50, and only two are going less than that on TCGplayer and Amazon.

[animeentranced]

I'm really really glad there's a group hug precon.
I wanted to get back into magic after like a decade away and group hug deck was what I wanted to try the most. I always loved making deals at the table and playing with cards that could do that.

[charlesbass]

Reserved my seat for the chaos event right away! So excited to meet you sir.