Growing Threat Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Everything in the Growing Threat Commander deck: all 100 cards with current prices, what the deck is worth against the sealed price, the 10 new cards, and whether it is worth buying.

Commander · Orzhov

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Whenever you cast a Phyrexian creature or artifact creature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.) At the beginning of each end step, if a Phyrexian died under your control this turn, proliferate.

Singles value

$85.50

TCGplayer market, 77 cards, basic lands counted at $0

Sealed price

$84.85

TCGplayer price for the box (Amazon $114.99) · singles are 1.0× that

New cards

10 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

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Is Growing Threat worth buying?

from March of the Machine Commander Decks: Are They Worth It? by Timothy Zaccagnino

This deck is mining new strategic territory but does it in a way that feels confused. Clearly the incubate mechanic is supposed to tie together the Phyrexian synergies and artifact theme, but I’d look to focus on one or the other.

This is a good pickup for anyone who desperately wants a Phyrexian tribal deck, and it has some cool recursive and reanimator elements as well.

If you’re looking to upgrade Growing Threat, look no further.

How Growing Threat plays

primer from Growing Threat Upgrade Guide: 16 Easy Changes You Can Make by Timothy Zaccagnino

Growing Threat is led by Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos, the compleated version of Brimaz, King of Oreskos. This deck combines a Phyrexian tribal theme with artifact payoffs and a light reanimator subtheme. Moira and Teshar is the tag team backup commander and offers a graveyard-centric approach to the deck.

Half of this deck focuses on Phyrexians while the other half ties together different artifact synergies. It feels a bit disparate to me, only held together by Brimaz being on board. Brimaz reminds me of Daxos the Returned in that you get a cascading advantage for enacting your gameplan, but the strategy falters when the commander isn’t on board. But you’ll have a steady stream of creatures to sacrifice and beat down with if Brimaz sticks around.