Commander Workshop – 2,000 Cards for $39 (2024)

Posted on Apr 08, 2024

By Tony Mayer

Are you a longtime fan of Commander like I am? Perhaps you’ve played hundreds of games with your friends at the kitchen table or at the local game store, or maybe you’ve met new folks slinging spells at a CommandFest.

Are you relatively new to Magic but picked up the game using Commander decks? Then you’re one of the fastest-growing segments of the Magic community!

If you’re ready to explore all that Commander offers in the digital realm, we have just the item to kick-start your journey!

Commander Workshop: The Ultimate Commander Brewer’s Toolbox

For just $39 USD, the Commander Workshop adds 2,000 cards to your MTGO Collection, and we’re not talking about low-rarity, ho-hum stuff, here. This is a true springboard into a deep dive of Magic’s wildest and weirdest format! The Workshop runs the gamut of MTGO history - here’s a breakdown:

· Rares and Mythics account for over 96% of this boxed set.

· 375 cards in the Workshop can serve as a Commander, and over 40 Planeswalkers are included.

· Over 120 sets are represented!

One of the fascinating parts of this product is the caliber of cards we can offer. The MTGO world is much different than tabletop in this respect. Commander Workshop contains some heavy hitters from our back catalog, including some older gems that are quite desirable and hard to obtain in tabletop Magic:

From iconic creatures of yesteryear to new-school powerhouses changing the landscape of modern Commander, this set is packed with 100-card potential!

And once you have a single copy of a card on Magic Online, you can use it in any number of decks in all formats where it is legal!

A Helping Hand for a Massive Playground

Between the 5,000+ cards that come with the Magic Online Account Upgrade Kit (as of April 10, 2024) and the 2,000 cards included here, the options with such a large palette might feel as overwhelming as they are exciting for many mages.

Never fear, though—we have you covered! In the near future, we will have a repository of decklists for Commander spanning a wide range of strategies and color combinations, all of which can be built from the pool of cards that come with the Account Upgrade Kit and Commander Workshop (this will exist sooner for other MTGO formats).

If you see a decklist on the Web you want to try in text format, copy it from that page to your clipboard and use the Paste from Clipboard import feature to drop it right into your Magic Online Collection!

Alternately, you can also grab a deck by downloading the Magic Online .DEK file or text file to your machine (many sites online have a download button – including the Decklists page on MTGO.com), then import it via the same deck import process shown above.

Just like that, you’re off and running—either straight into the Commander Open Play room, into a one-on-one Buddy Challenge, or tinkering to put your own spin on a deck!

In the coming weeks, we expect to see all sorts of “Magic Online Welcome Bundle” decklist ideas sprout up across the Web—from members of our Creator Program, Magic websites, and players on social media. We will be calling out great decklists we see on our social media platforms while adding more and more decks to the repository.

Magic Online: Your Home for Digital Commander

Magic Online has hosted the Commander format since its Elder Dragon Highlander days in the late 2000s (pre-dating Commander’s official introduction as a product in 2011). MTGO is the premier platform for 100-card battles online. We are thrilled to deliver a Commander product for the price of a pre-con: it’s a gateway into a Commander environment with endless potential for variety and creativity that gets you playing as fast as possible.

Are you ready for the world of Magic Online Commander? It’s ready for you – check out the full card list below, or view here on Moxfield.

We’ll see you on the battlefield!

View Commander Workshop on Moxfield