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Barefoot Ashling - 6 Commander Staples Missing from the Lorwyn Precons

  • Writer: Jace
    Jace
  • Jan 14
  • 3 min read

"Got My Boots!" - is not something poor old Ashling will be saying just before she strolls down that Path into Exile.


The Lorwyn Eclipsed Precons come out next week. There are a bunch of broadly used commander staples that are normally in the Commander precons and a few of those are missing from Lorwyn, so lets take a look at what isn't in the precons and so might see a slight uptick in value over the next few months (or you might want to grab some of the slightly older precons that do have them).


  1. The Lorwyn commanders are going barefoot: no Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots in either precon is a new precident. Probably not an issue for Auntie Ool (with all that warding blight), but Ashling is going to feel very limited without her hexproofing. More generally for the market as a whole, 38 and 36% of EDH decks play Greaves or Boots in them respectively (according to edhrec) and there's not been a commander set release in the last few years that didn't have either set of boots in any of the decks. So there might be a slight shortage of shoes around the marketplace in the next few months.

    Check its price on TCGPlayer


  1. Generous Gift: included in 23% of playable decks (according to EDHrec), but hasn't had a printing since Bloomburrow (although the Bloomburrow precons are still insanely cheap so maybe that will hold supply up a little longer?). It is the catch-all answer that any player of plains should be generously gifting their decklist.


  1. Rakdos Signet: hasn't had a printing since Duskmourn and not everyone playing Rakdos can afford a Soul Stone, but 26% of them do want this Signet in their deck. A few sales on TCGplayer double its price and a few more double it again:


  1. Similar vibes to the generous gifts, Pongify finds its way into 10% of decklists but only had the Dragonstorm printing last year. I've no idea why a blue card makes apes... To be honest I'm not so sold on this one, it had a double masters printing AND Rapid Hybridization is identical (but makes much more thematically sensible frogs) although is often played with pongy.


  1. Selesnya pain: Brushland had the one printing last year and the supply of Bloomburrow copies is waning (down to 30ish on TCGplayer). If you're looking for an upcoming gap in the manabases market, plausibly the diminishing supply of precon Brushlands could be it? But really who plays selesnya?

  1. Talisman of Unity: Appropriate that those WOTC precon folks don't like celery and no-one likes selesnya either? Hasn't had a printing for a couple years (how the woes of selesnya continue boohoohoo) but about 7% of decks do want this celery in them. But who is playing selesnya and doesn't already have enough 2 mana ramp/fixing?! If you can't get the celery surely you just rampant growth or explore or farseek or.... I think when the algorithm got to this one I realised we'd reached the end of our list (probably one card earlier).


What else did we consider here? Blasphemous Act gets a reprint that might pull its price back down a bit and Swords to Plowshares isn't included, but there are quite a few out there and you could imagine some Turtles maybe having swords in a few weeks time? We also looked at: all the pain lands, check lands, filter lands, mana rocks, signets, Chaos Warps, Path to Exiles, green ramp spells, Beast withins and Skullclamps (which had quite a few printings in the last couple years but is missing from the Lorwyn precons and is played in ~10% of decks).


Overall though, I wouldn't say this grew a huge amount of fruit (or should that be celery?!?!).


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Jace & Garruk

 
 
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