Exquisite Invention Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Everything in the Exquisite Invention Commander deck: all 100 cards with current prices, what the deck is worth against the sealed price, the 17 new cards, and whether it is worth buying.

Commander · Izzet

Saheeli, the Gifted

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. +1: The next spell you cast this turn has affinity for artifacts. (It costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control as you cast it.) −7: For each artifact you control, create a token that's a copy of it. Those tokens gain haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step. Saheeli, the Gifted can be your commander.

Singles value

$69.16

TCGplayer market, 73 cards, basic lands counted at $0

Sealed price

$48.77

TCGplayer price for the box (Amazon $72.00) · singles are 1.4× that

New cards

17 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

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Is Exquisite Invention worth buying?

from Commander 2018 Decks: Review and Information by Max Wu-Blouin

I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, Exquisite Invention has some really cool artifact synergies and a solid commander to lead them. On the other hand, it’s entirely reliant on combat damage to win, which goes against the spirit of most artifact-themed Commander decks to go off with wacky combos.

If Exquisite Invention had just a few more power cards that could finish off opponents without requiring an army of creatures, I’d find it considerably more appealing. Overall, it seems like a solid deck that could use the help of a few upgrades.

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How Exquisite Invention plays

No products found. is an artifact-centric deck. Besides playing a bunch of artifacts and other cards that synergize with them, there isn’t much strategy to playing this deck. You still have to cast creatures and attack with them to win.

Most of the deck’s power comes from your commander, Saheeli, the Gifted. Her second ability can generate loads of mana which can be used to cast high-cost, high-power cards like Myr Battlesphere and Duplicant.

Exquisite Invention is a powerful deck once it gets going, but that can be said about pretty much any Commander deck.