Planar Portal Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Prosper, Tome-Bound

Deathtouch Mystic Arcanum — At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. Pact Boon — Whenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.

Singles value

$113.75

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

Sealed price

$141.91

TCGplayer price for the box (Amazon $199.99) · singles are 0.8× that

New cards

17 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

Is Planar Portal worth buying?

from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Commander Decks: Are They Worth It? by Ignacio (Iñaki)

At today's prices the singles come to $113.75, carried by Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant ($11.91), Grim Hireling ($11.48), Reckless Endeavor ($11.35). 17 of the 100 cards are new to this deck.

How Planar Portal plays

I don’t want to play into stereotypes around heavy metal fans and all that, but I love warlocks and characters who make deals with otherworldly beings for power. I don’t think this is a particularly strong deck, but it is interesting. Wizards managed to perfectly capture the feeling of what a warlock is in a single deck. And it’s not a tribal deck or anything even close to it.

This deck’s commander is Prosper, Tome-Bound. Your strategy here consists of playing as many cards as you can from exile to create a lot of Treasure and generate some strong mana advantage to play even more cards. Sometimes you’ll even use your opponents’ cards to your own advantage.

Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant is this deck’s secondary commander. Its strategy leans more towards a more traditional Rakdos aggro theme. It also adds a small layer of politics since it rewards your opponents for attacking each other instead of you. It synergizes really well with Commander classics like Disrupt Decorum.