Creative Energy Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

There’s some good and bad here. The value’s great, offering around $100 in reprints. Assuming you can pick this up for a reasonable price, you’re getting your money’s worth and then some. However, it’s hard to overlook how much this overlaps with the Doctor Who energy deck from last year. It again highlights one of the downsides of pumping out Commander precons with every set – it’s hard for precons to feel unique when they tread on each other so obviously.

This feels like a “Copy my homework, but don’t make it too obvious” situation, but at least it gives energy players more tools to work with. Also be aware that most of these energy cards don’t translate well to other strategies, so don’t expect to disassemble the precon and get too much to add to your other decks.

Satya, Aetherflux GeniusCayth, Famed Mechanist

Creative Energy is a Jeskai energy deck, which is either genius or a total goof given the Doctor Who Jeskai energy deck that released not even a year ago. It’s cool that those decks can pull pieces from one another, but they definitely tread on each others’ toes in terms of a novelty precon experience.

Creative Energy ‘s Jeskai commander is Satya, Aetherflux Genius, a legendary Flamerush Rider that lets you spend energy to keep the token around.

Cayth, Famed Mechanist is the alternate commander, who leans into the artifact half of the deck, but still plays into the energy themes with proliferation. This half-energy half-artifact dynamic was strangely the exact structure of the Doctor Who deck.

To fix this, let’s perform a more delicate surgery than my usual approach, which is just to chop out the backup commander’s theme. You just need a bit more efficiency there, adding some more efficient Thopter generation for that segment while culling a lot of it and adding better support for the energy elements of the deck.

Draftsim's upgrade guide makes 21 changes to this deck. The first picks (hover for the card):

• Retrofitter Foundry
• Thopter Spy Network
• Sai, Master Thopterist
• Phyrexian Ironworks
• Mechanized Production
• Aether Revolt

• Official Modern Horizons 3 Commander decklists (Wizards of the Coast)
• All 12 Jeskai Commander Precons in Magic Ranked by A.L. Walser (September 20, 2026)