MTG Commander precon price index

What the singles are worth in all 177 official Commander preconstructed decks — priced at the exact printing and finish that comes in the box, not at whatever printing shares the name. Updated August 6, 2026.

• $104 Median precon, TCGplayer singles
• $308 Most valuable in stores — Eldrazi Unbound
• 85 of 161 decks worth $100 or more
• 2.47× Collector’s Edition premium, 4 priceable pairs

Every precon value list has the same problem: it prices the cards by name. Ask a site what a Commander deck is worth and it looks up "Sol Ring", finds the cheapest of the forty-odd printings, and adds that to the pile. The number you get back is what a deck containing those cards would cost to assemble from the bargain bin — not what is sitting in the box on the shelf.

A precon's decklist knows better than that. Every card in one carries a set code, a collector number and a finish, so the copy in your Wakanda Forever box is a specific object with its own price. Sometimes that is the same as the cheap printing. Often it is not, and the gap is widest on exactly the cards people buy the deck for — a new-frame precon-exclusive reprint is a different object from the 2011 copy of the same name, and a Collector's Edition is the same hundred cards where all hundred are foil.

So this index prices the printing. All 12,843 distinct printings across the whole precon corpus are looked up by set and collector number every night, at both TCGplayer market and Card Kingdom retail, and totalled per deck.

Every Commander precon by singles value

Sort by any column. 161 base decks plus 16 Collector's Editions, newest release first to start. Decks with a published upgrade guide link to it.

What the numbers say

The median precon holds about $104 in singles

Across the 161 decks with prices, the median is $104 and 85 of them clear $100. Against a $40–$60 shelf price that reads like a bargain, and for a player it broadly is — but read the next section before treating it as one.

The floor is $33 (Token Triumph, from Starter Commander Decks), and only 5 decks sit under $50 — all of them from that same budget line, which is doing exactly what it was priced to do.

The most valuable precon isn't one you can buy in a shop

The top of the table is Angels: They're Just Like Us but Cooler and with Wings at $699, and six of the top seven decks are Secret Lair drops. That is true and it is also not what anyone means by the question. Secret Lair Commander decks are limited web-store products sold at three to four times a normal precon's price, in all-foil alternate-art printings, and they are priced accordingly on the secondary market.

The most valuable deck you can pick up off a game-store shelf is Eldrazi Unbound from Commander Masters, at $308. Excluding the Secret Lairs, the median barely moves — $100 against $104 — because seven decks can move a maximum and not a middle.

A Collector's Edition is worth about 2.47× its normal twin

This is the question the printing-level pricing exists to answer, because a Collector's Edition and its base deck are the same hundred cards with the same collector numbers — every index that prices by name shows them as identical, and every index that skips them entirely dodges the question.

Where both halves can be priced honestly, the CE runs 2.12× to 2.68× the base deck. That is 4 pairs, all four of them Warhammer 40,000 decks from 2022, and the consistency across four independent products is what makes the figure worth quoting at all.

Card Kingdom, priced separately and over all 16 pairs, says 2.28×. Two vendors reaching the same answer by different routes is the strongest evidence on this page, and it matters because they are not measuring the same twelve decks: Card Kingdom quotes its own buy-it-now price and therefore has a foil number for a set the week it ships, where a marketplace average has nothing yet to average.

The other 12 pairs are deliberately left out of the TCGplayer average, and the reason is worth stating plainly: their foil printings have barely traded yet. 979 of the 2,085 foil copies in the whole corpus have no foil price at TCGplayer at all — not because the card doesn't exist in foil, but because nobody has sold one recently enough to set a market price. Those copies are counted at their nonfoil price, the row is marked floor in the table, and the deck's real value is higher than what you see. Averaging a 2022 set that has fully traded together with a 2026 set that hasn't would produce a number that measures TCGplayer's listing coverage and calls it a market.

The most valuable cards in Commander precons

Single printings, ranked by TCGplayer market price, across every deck in the index. Foil rows are the box's foil copy, not a foil of some other printing.

The board is dominated by foils for the same reason the Collector's Editions are: a foil precon-exclusive printing has a thin supply and no reprint history, so it prices well above the nonfoil sitting next to it in a different box. Talon Gates of Madara at $121.53, from Tricky Terrain Collector's Edition, is a single card worth more than the median entire precon.

How these numbers are worked out

• The printing in the box, not the name. Every card is resolved by set code and collector number to one specific printing, and priced at the finish the box ships — foil copies at the foil price, nonfoil at the nonfoil.
• Two vendors, side by side. TCGplayer market price and Card Kingdom retail. They disagree, routinely and by a lot; Card Kingdom runs higher because it is one shop's buy-it-now price rather than a marketplace average. Neither is more correct.
• Everything in the deck counts, basic lands included. They are cards in the box and they cost money to replace. It is a near-constant offset across decks, so it barely affects the ranking.
• Missing prices are left out, never counted as zero. A copy with no price is excluded from the total and reported separately — a row reading unpriced is quoting a partial deck, and one reading floor has foil copies counted at nonfoil prices. In both cases the true figure is higher than the one shown.
• Rebuilt nightly. Prices move; a value list that was accurate in 2024 is fiction now.

What this does not tell you

It is not what you would get for selling one. These are retail prices — what it costs to buy the cards. A buylist offer is routinely 40–60% of that, and no shop wants your ninety commons. The realistic cash value of a precon you crack for singles is a small fraction of the number in the table, concentrated almost entirely in the two or three cards on its most-valuable row.

It is not an argument for buying precons as an investment. The reprint that made a deck's chase card expensive is also the reprint that will make it cheap, and Wizards prints Commander products continuously. A deck's singles value is most useful for the opposite decision: whether the deck you actually want to play is the one that also happens to hold a $50 card you can use elsewhere.

Singles value is not deck quality. The correlation is weak enough to be worth ignoring. An expensive precon is usually expensive because it reprinted two staples, not because the ninety-eight other cards are good together — and the mana base, which is where precons most often actually fail, costs almost nothing either way. The upgrade guides argue that separately, from the decklist rather than the price.

Common questions

How much are the singles in a Commander precon worth?

The median is $104 at TCGplayer market prices, against a shelf price usually between $40 and $60. The spread is wide though — $33 at the bottom to $308 for the most valuable deck sold in stores — so the deck matters far more than the average does.

Which Commander precon has the most valuable cards?

Eldrazi Unbound from Commander Masters at $308, among decks you can buy at a game store. Counting the limited Secret Lair Commander drops, Angels: They're Just Like Us but Cooler and with Wings is higher at $699, but it also cost several times as much new.

Are Collector's Edition precons worth the extra money?

In singles value, the ones old enough to have traded properly are worth 2.12× to 2.68× their standard twin — a bigger multiple than the roughly 1.5× premium they carry at retail. That maths favours the Collector's Edition. Whether it favours you depends on whether you want foils, because it is the same hundred cards and it plays identically.

Why is a deck's value here different from other sites?

Because most sites price a decklist by card name and take the cheapest printing of each. That answers "what would these hundred cards cost me to assemble", which is a fair question and a different one. This index prices the specific printing in the box, which is why its Collector's Edition and alternate-frame numbers diverge most sharply from everyone else's.

Can I sell a precon for the value shown here?

No, and not close. These are retail prices. Buylist offers typically run 40–60% of retail on the cards a shop wants and nothing at all on the rest of the deck, so the cash you would actually see is a fraction of the total and comes almost entirely from the deck's few expensive cards.

Related

• Are Secret Lair Commander decks worth it? — the seven limited drops against what each cost new, and what the alternate-art printings are actually adding.
• Precon upgrade guides — every Commander precon with its commander and colour identity, plus the guides.
• Deck mana audit — paste a precon's list and check whether its mana actually supports its costs.
• Bracket checker — which bracket a stock precon can claim.
• Card search — look up any single card's printings and prices.

Prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market) and the Card Kingdom pricelist, refreshed nightly. Decklists from the published product contents. Prices are what they were on August 6, 2026 and will have moved since.