Maestros Massacre Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Everything in the Maestros Massacre 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 · Grixis

Anhelo, the Painter

Deathtouch The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn has casualty 2. (As you cast that spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy the spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.)

Singles value

$95.50

TCGplayer market, 82 cards, basic lands counted at $0

Sealed price

$81.80

TCGplayer price for the box (Amazon $115.00) · singles are 1.2× that

New cards

17 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

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Is Maestros Massacre worth buying?

from Streets of New Capenna Commander Decks: Are They Worth It? by Ignacio (Iñaki)

Maestros Massacre is a deck that very strongly plays into its own strengths. The spellslinging and graveyard combination works really well and the cards that come in the deck are very well chosen. They all play into the archetype one way or another and benefit the deck somehow.

Value-wise it isn’t too bad but it’s definitely the lowest of the set. The $10 price mark on Anhelo, the Painter is pretty good nonetheless, and the cards that follow it aren’t too bad either.

I really like this deck but I’ll admit to my own bias of Grixis being one of my favorite color combinations. Most of the cards interact seamlessly with each other and the deck feels like a well-oiled machine ready to cast a ton of spells.

How Maestros Massacre plays

Maestros Massacre is a very Grixis deck through and through. The two main strategies of this deck are spellslinging and getting creatures in and out of your graveyard. Anhelo, the Painter is very concise and defines the deck’s strategy very clearly by giving your first spell each turn casualty 2. Casualty lets you sacrifice a creature with power X (in this case 2) to copy the spell being cast.

Creatures like Squee, the Immortal, Rekindling Phoenix, and Bloodsoaked Champion are important in this deck. You can copy your spells without much trouble and it’ll hardly mean a significant drawback for you. But if you don’t want to sacrifice your very important creatures there are also spells like Army of the Damned, Dread Summons, and Waste Management which generate creature tokens to give you some casualty fodder.