Planeswalker Party - Deck List, Card Predictions, And Possible Reprints

Commander Masters is slated to hit shelves on August 4th and it’s bringing four brand-new precons with it as well as a main set of reprints for the format. As far as precons go, we have fairly limited knowledge so far. We know there will be four and their names are Eldrazi Unbound, Enduring Enchantment, Sliver Swarm, and Planeswalker Party. The planeswalker deck is the focus of today’s article.

Planeswalker Party is a 100-card preconstructed deck releasing with Commander Masters on August 4th. The color identity is Jeskai colors (Red, White, Blue) and it will contain 10 brand-new cards, one of which will be the commander.

While that’s all the concrete info we have at the moment there’s a lot that we can deduce from what we already know. So, today we’ll be talking about possible strategies, making some reprint predictions, speculating on who the commander may be, and more. Without further ado, let’s get into it.

Deck Strategy

Judging by the name of the deck and the color identity, it’s pretty easy to tell this will be a “super friends” deck. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, here’s how EDHREC describes it:

‘Superfriends’ is a deck archetype in which a player will assemble multiple planeswalkers onto the battlefield, using those planeswalkers’ abilities to create game-winning advantages over their opponents. The strategy derives its name from the eponymous TV show Super Friends, which features multiple superheroes joining forces with one another. These decks contain an extremely high density of planeswalkers cards and will often feature cards that provide those planeswalkers with additional loyalty counters, or effects that allow those planeswalkers to activate loyalty abilities multiple times per turn.
EDHREC.com – Planeswalker Theme

With the general idea out of the way, here are some specific categories and the cards that I would expect to see for each one.

The Planeswalkers

Jeskai has a lot of popular/powerful Planeswalkers – Chandra, Narset, Teferi, The Wandering Emperor, and Elspeth to name a few. Between these walkers you have powerful abilities that enable control, stax, card advantage, ramp, life gain, aggro/token, and burn. The amount different walkers that could be included is pretty vast but here are a few that I would suspect to see.

Each one of these offers some combination of card advantage, token production, ways to interact with opposing boards, and/or impactful ultimate abilities. Keep in mind that Planeswalkers are non-creature creature spells. So, abilities that trigger off of casting these like the static ability of Saheeli, Sublime Artificer will trigger for your walkers.

Conventional wisdom says that a deck needs around 20 cards (20% of an EDH deck) of a given type to really generate a payoff from that card type. That said, I would expect somewhere right around that number for the precon. I would expect that some of the new cards coming with the deck will be never before seen Planeswalkers too.

Planeswalker Payoffs And Support

With a critical mass of Planeswalkers in the deck and on the battlefield, the next step is cards that further improve the value they generate or reward you for playing them. Here are some cards for this category that I wouldn’t be surprised to see show up in the deck.

Each of the cards listed above cares about Planeswalkers or enables them in some way. Mechanics like proliferate are extremely powerful for archetypes like this and have gotten a lot of support recently, so I’d expect to see quite a bit of those present as well.

Not only does proliferation help keep your Planeswalkers alive but it also accelerates you on your way to their most powerful abilities. When you pair these spells with things that double up the number of counters you get with each activation, you’ll get a recipe for success.

Furthermore, there are cards that dig or even tutor, directly for the card type. You’ll also have the added benefits of making opponents choose between attacking you or your walkers and blank a lot of removal spells that can only hit creatures.

Possible Reprints

As I mentioned in my other commander Masters prediction articles, the average price of reprints in precons is around $95. What this means, is that when the deck is released, counting only cards that are reprints (and vomiting the value of any new cards) they would generate a value of around $95.

That said, I expect that these precons will have a slightly higher reprint value than the decks of the past. For the sake of simple math, let’s go with $100. Everything I’ve mentioned so far would be in the ballpark of $50, with the most expensive card being The Chain Veil, which is about $27. Here are some other high-dollar reprints that I think would be logical for this deck.

Cards You Should Pick Up Before Planeswalker Party Releases

If you’re buying Planeswalker Party when it releases and want to upgrade it, you’ll want to pick up some of the upgrades that won’t be in the precon. I’ve selected a few cards that people will likely be looking to add to the deck but that I don’t think will make it into the stock list.

Official Deck List

We don’t have deck lists just yet. However, when they drop, you’ll find them here.

Possible Commander

Commodore Guff

As some keen-eyed fans quickly noticed, an old MTG character named Commodore Guff graces the box for Planeswalker Party. Guff played a key role in the original Phyrexian invasion of Dominaria, where he fought alongside Urza. He lived in a massive library in Dominaria where he had access to every book ever written – Even books that held knowledge of the universe; Past, present, and future.

That said, he knew how the invasion would go, and fought anyways. Even going as far as erasing and changing some things within the books mentioned above. Unfortunately for Guff, he was killed by Yawgmoth (in death cloud version) within seconds of exposure. However, fans of MTG lore never forgot Guff and his heroism and many players have wanted to see him on a card for a long time.

And it seems like that’s exactly what’s happening here. If it does pan out, he may very well be a planeswalker card that can function as your commander. But for now, I guess all that we can say about him for sure is that he’ll be R, W, & U in color identity.

End Step

There you have it my friends, all my predictions for what we’ll see in Planeswalker Party. Superfriends got a lot of support recently with all of the proliferation in Phyrexia: All Will Be One and there has never been a better time to print this precon than right now. Oh, and by the way, go ahead and pick up some Planeswalker removal for whatever colors you run in EDH.