Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile | Illustration by Livia Prima
Commander precons are some of the most popular products for players who want to jump into the format without having to build a deck from scratch. And while 2- or 3-color decks are already exciting, nothing tops the chaos and fun of running all five colors.
Today, we’re going to walk through all of the 5-color Commander precons to rank their strengths and see which ones deliver the best value.
Curious to know which deck comes out on top? Let’s dive in!
What Are 5-Color Commander Precons?
Sliver Gravemother | Illustration by Chris Rahn
Five-color Commander precons are ready-to-play decks built around all five colors of Magic. Unlike most precons that focus on a single strategy or color pair, these decks highlight “rainbow” gameplay. They combine different themes under one roof, from typal swarms to big spell good-stuff builds.
The trade-off is that their mana bases are trickier, and sometimes the themes overlap or feel less focused. Still, for players who love variety, splashy plays, and the full spectrum of Magic’s mechanics, 5-color Commander precons are the ultimate showcase decks.
#7. 20 Ways to Win
20 Ways to Win is a Secret Lair 5-color precon focused on alternate win conditions. It runs Go-Shintai of Life's Origin as its commander, and it features new artwork of a tanuki trickster spirit surrounded by 10 different cards.
Deck Themes
True to its name, this 5-color precon is packed with alternate win conditions—20 different “you win the game” cards or setups—so you pivot between lifegain wins, hand-size checks, token/treasure thresholds, gates, and more. The plan is to pick a route, protect it, and surprise the table with a left-field victory.
Commanders
20 Ways to Win is helmed by Go-Shintai of Life's Origin, whose WUBRG identity turns on the whole list and whose activated ability reanimates key enchantment wincons like Helix Pinnacle, Revel in Riches, Simic Ascendancy, Test of Endurance, or Happily Ever After.
The commander is more insurance policy than linchpin—the deck can still win without it—but it’s the right fit for recursion and shrine token chumps while you assemble a victory.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The deck’s primary strengths are its unpredictability and redundancy. You threaten wins from many angles—Approach of the Second Sun, Maze's End, Revel in Riches, Mechanized Production, Liliana's Contract, Simic Ascendancy, Felidar Sovereign, Triskaidekaphile—to force opponents to answer different axes every game. The product also features a splashy “tanuki” art suite on marquee pieces, which adds collector appeal.
Its weaknesses lie in its lack of consistency and speed. Many wincons don’t help each other, so you can draw disconnected pieces and durdle behind tapland gates while aggro decks race ahead. Telegraphed permanents like Simic Ascendancy or Helix Pinnacle invite removal, and without tutors/engines online, rebuilding is slow—even with Go-Shintai of Life's Origin to recur enchantments. Expect a lower raw power level than streamlined midrange lists.
Notable Cards
The stars are the win conditions: Approach of the Second Sun, Maze's End (+ full gate package), Revel in Riches, Mechanized Production, Liliana's Contract, Helix Pinnacle, Simic Ascendancy, Test of Endurance, Happily Ever After, Biovisionary, Triskaidekaphile, and more—many with special Secret Lair treatments.
Rounding things out are 5-color staples like Chromatic Lantern and protective/ramp pieces to buy time and enable whichever path you pursue, plus the Maze’s End/gates suite to keep that avenue online. It’s a toolbox of oddball victories packaged to create great “gotcha” moments at the table.
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- For fans of sudden victories, unexpected upsets, and comebacks that come out of nowhere, this deck is loaded with jaw-dropping win conditions that will leave your friends and foes speechless. While most Commander players have only three paths to victory—dealing 21 commander damage, milling out opponents, or reducing their life totals to 0—this exciting deck gives you 20 stunning ways to win.
- With twelve crafty cards (including two tokens) featuring all-new art of a tanuki trickster spirit making mischief and turning tables, this deck will have you raising your sly paws in celebration before your opponents even know what hit them.
- New art by AlbaBG, Natalie Andrewson, Jordan Crane, Heikala, Aya Kakeda, kelogsloops, Brandi Milne, Luke Pearson, Dani Pendergast, Yuko Shimizu, and Wizard of Barge.
- Contents: 1x Foil Go-Shintai of Life’s Origin, 1x Foil Approach of the Second Sun, 1x Foil Felidar Sovereign, 1x Foil Happily Ever After, 1x Foil Triskaidekaphile, 1x Foil Revel in Riches, 1x Foil Helix Pinnacle, 1x Foil Simic Ascendancy, 1x Foil Sol Ring, 1x Foil Maze’s End, 2x Foil Shrine Tokens, 1x Foil Go-Shintai of Life’s Origin Display Card, 90x Reprints, 10x Double-Sided Reprint Tokens, 1x 20 Ways to Win Checklist
#6. Painbow
Painbow is the Dominaria United Commander 5-color precon from 2022 centered on multicolor synergies, with Jared Carthalion as the face commander.
Deck Themes
This 5-color precon leans into “rainbow good-stuff” with a strong domain subtheme. Instead of focusing on one creature type, it rewards you for casting multicolored spells and having all five basic land types. The early turns are spent fixing mana with ramp and rocks, then the deck drops flashy multicolor legends, sweepers, and payoffs that scale with domain. The idea is simple: If you can harness every color of mana, you get to play the most powerful, flexible spells available.
Commanders
The face card is Jared Carthalion, one of the rare planeswalkers that can helm a Commander deck. Its abilities tie directly into domain: It makes 3/3 all-color tokens and buffs your team, and its ultimate can blanket the board with counters and trample.
The alternate option is Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile, a cheap 2-drop commander that smooths draws with scry whenever you cast a multicolor spell and eventually churns out 4/4 all-color angels. Between them, Jenson is usually the smoother pick for consistency, while Jared offers bigger splashy payoffs if you want a more unique experience.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The biggest strength of Painbow is its flexibility. With all five colors, it can cover almost any situation—it sports efficient spot removal like Path to Exile, sweeping answers like Merciless Eviction, or value-packed multicolor legends like Illuna, Apex of Wishes and Nethroi, Apex of Death. Domain payoffs like Iridian Maelstrom also give it flashy, board-swinging plays.
Its weakness is a lack of focus. Because it runs such a wide range of gold cards, the deck doesn’t always push toward a single plan. A mana base heavy on tapped lands makes the early game clunky, and missing just one color can strand powerful spells in hand. The card draw is mostly one-shot effects, so if your opponents answer your first wave of threats, Painbow can run out of gas quickly.
Notable Cards
This deck delivered a mix of exciting new rainbow tools and hard-to-find reprints. Jared Carthalion introduced a rare 5-color planeswalker commander, while Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile quickly became a staple for multicolor builds thanks to its scry engine and cheap cost.
Flashy spells like Unite the Coalition, Iridian Maelstrom, and Mana Cannons embodied the payoff for going all five colors, with Obsidian Obelisk, Two-Headed Hellkite, and Primeval Spawn to round out the new rainbow options.
Reprints added plenty of value: Maelstrom Nexus and Maelstrom Archangel fit the theme perfectly, while Knight of New Alara, Chromanticore, and even Glint-Eye Nephilim reinforced multicolor creature synergies.
Staples like Fellwar Stone, Arcane Signet, Coalition Relic, and Commander's Sphere smoothed the mana, while Merciless Eviction, Duneblast, and Urban Evolution offered control and value.
The land suite tied it together with Murmuring Bosk, Alara’s tri-lands, and Crystal Quarry.
- 100-card ready-to-play Dominaria United Commander Deck
- 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack
- Deck includes 2 traditional foils + 98 nonfoil cards
- 1 foil-etched Display Commander
- 10 double-sided tokens + life tracker and deck box
#5. Sliver Swarm
Sliver Swarm is the Commander Masters 5-color sliver typal precon, headlined by Sliver Gravemother.
Deck Themes
This 5-color precon is pure sliver typal. Every sliver shares its abilities with the whole team, so each new body supercharges the hive—one might give flying (Galerider Sliver), another haste (Blur Sliver), and another extra power (Bonesplitter Sliver). The list packs a high sliver count to go wide, then it overwhelms the table with a stack of teamwide keywords. The twist is Sliver Gravemother, which adds graveyard reach by giving encore to your slivers and turning fallen bugs into a last, hasty alpha strike.
Commanders
Sliver Gravemother is the face and the best leader out of the box: It ignores the legend rule for slivers and gives every sliver card in your graveyard encore , which lets you re-swarm the board for a finisher.
The deck also includes Rukarumel, Biologist, who lets you choose a creature type and makes all your creatures (and creature spells) that type—usually sliver—for a flexible, build-around take.
A classic backup is Sliver Hivelord, which gives your hive indestructible and immediately punishes sweepers. Gravemother gives you recursion and inevitability, Hivelord gives you protection and pressure, and Rukarumel allows for toolbox creativity.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Sliver Swarm scales fast, and nearly every sliver acts as an anthem or utility piece. Mana engines like Manaweft Sliver keep your colors flowing, while new additions like Capricious Sliver add card draw and Regal Sliver brings the monarch mechanic and pumps the team to shore up classic typal weaknesses. With sliver-friendly wipes like Harsh Mercy, the deck quickly snowballs into a wide, lethal board.
The downside is fragility—losing enablers like Manaweft Sliver or haste-granting effects can stall momentum, and the stock manabase relies heavily on tapped lands, slowing the early game. Sweepers that exile or shrink the board can punish your small creatures, and while encore from Sliver Gravemother is powerful, it demands a lot of mana to shine.
Notable Cards
Sliver Swarm introduced Sliver Gravemother, which grants encore to every sliver, and Rukarumel, Biologist, which lets you turn all creatures into your chosen type.
New entries like Capricious Sliver, Hatchery Sliver, Lazotep Sliver, Regal Sliver, and Taunting Sliver add card draw, token insurance, monarch value, and combat manipulation, while spells like Descendants' Fury and For the Ancestors expand slivers’ reach.
Reprints bring back staples like Sliver Hivelord for indestructibility, Crystalline Sliver and Hibernation Sliver for protection, plus modern upgrades like Cloudshredder Sliver, Lavabelly Sliver, and Spiteful Sliver.
Support pieces like Vanquisher's Banner, Herald's Horn, Nature's Lore, Farseek, and Cultivate keep the deck consistent, while wipes like Harsh Mercy and Cleansing Nova reset the table when needed.
- POWERFUL RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX—Take your Commander game to the next level with a high-powered, ready-to-play deck
- PLAY WITH COMMANDER’S GREATEST HITS—Turn heads with a deck stacked with reprints of some of the greatest cards to grace Magic’s most popular format
- INTRODUCES 10 COMMANDER CARDS—Each Commander deck also introduces 10 never-before-seen Magic: The Gathering cards
- FIVE-COLOR COMMANDER DECK—get the Sliver Swarm Commander Deck, a White-Blue-Black-Red-Green 100-card deck containing 2 Foil Legendary cards and 98 nonfoil cards, and battle your friends in epic, multiplayer games
- COLLECT SPECIAL TREATMENT CARDS—Each deck comes with a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack containing 2 special treatment cards from the Commander Masters set, including 1 Rare or Mythic Rare
#4. Eldrazi Incursion
Eldrazi Incursion is the Modern Horizons 3 Commander 5-color precon built around the Eldrazi, led by Ulalek, Fused Atrocity.
Deck Themes
This 5-color precon plays like a colorless Eldrazi deck that splashes WUBRG for support. You ramp with Eldrazi Spawn/Eldrazi Scion makers and rocks, then drop massive threats while you milk cast/ETB triggers. The list even packs payoffs that supercharge colorless creatures and lands that specifically boost Eldrazi. In short: Make mana, spawn a brood, and crush the table with annihilator and haymaker effects.
Commanders
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity is the marquee leader, a colorless Eldrazi with 5-color identity that lets you pay to copy your own spells/abilities whenever you cast an Eldrazi. You can double cast triggers or even the creature spell itself.
Azlask, the Swelling Scourge is the backup, and it builds experience counters as your colorless creatures die, then pumps the team and turns your Spawn/Scions into indestructible annihilators for a lethal swing. Pick Ulalek, Fused Atrocity for “cast big things, copy value,” or Azlask, the Swelling Scourge if you plan to flood the board with tokens and alpha strike.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The precon is tightly synergistic and explosive for out-of-box play. Token engines like Awakening Zone and payoffs like Forsaken Monument ramp you into top-end Eldrazi. Dedicated lands (Eldrazi Temple, Shrine of the Forsaken Gods) and solid rocks push you to 7+ mana quickly. With Ulalek, Fused Atrocity to copy cast triggers—or an Eldrazi “Confluence”-style spell—you can snowball advantage fast.
The flipside is classic battlecruiser risk: It has clunky hands of 7-drops, and it’s vulnerable to early pressure and to blowouts from sweepers that wipe your Spawn/Scion tokens. Artifact hate that turns off rocks or effects that blank sacrifices can also stall you, and annihilator tends to draw table hate.
Notable Cards
New headliners include the commanders—Ulalek, Fused Atrocity and Azlask, the Swelling Scourge—plus a suite of originals like Eldritch Immunity (team protection), Eldrazi Confluence, and fresh Eldrazi bodies (e.g., Benthic Anomaly, Chittering Dispatcher). They give Eldrazi decks tools they didn’t have before.
Reprints are spicy, including Eldrazi Conscription, Eldrazi Monument, All Is Dust, and threats like Artisan of Kozilek, World Breaker, and Sire of Stagnation. You also get Eldrazi-friendly mana like Eldrazi Temple and Shrine of the Forsaken Gods. Great glue pieces like Herald's Horn appear as well.
- POWERFUL RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX—Battle your friends with powerful creatures and spectacular spells with a 100-card Commander Deck that’s ready to defeat your opponents right out of the box
- BRING THE PAIN TO ANY PLANE—Ramp from small Eldrazi Spawns and Scions up to towering monsters and devour all in your path
- INTRODUCES 15 COMMANDER CARDS—This deck introduces 15 never-before-seen Commander cards to Magic: The Gathering, including 2 foil Legendary Creature cards
- COLLECT SPECIAL TREATMENT CARDS—Each deck also comes with a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack containing 2 alt-border cards from the Modern Horizons 3 set, including 1 Rare or Mythic Rare and at least 1 Traditional Foil card
- YOUR NEW FOREVER FAVORITES—Introducing a heaping helping of exciting cards plus the return of competitive favorites, there’s something for everyone to love in Modern Horizons 3 Commander Decks
#3. Everyone’s Invited!
Everyone's Invited! is the Secret Lair 5-color changeling precon built around Morophon, the Boundless, which turns every typal payoff into a one-sided engine with new card arts and tons of rainbow foil iconic cards.
Deck Themes
This one mashes all typal payoffs together by leaning on changelings and type-setting effects so your creatures count as every creature type. That turns classic “choose a type” cards into one-sided engines—draw with Kindred Discovery, flood the board with Kindred Summons, or nuke everyone else with Kindred Dominance—while anthem pieces like Coat of Arms supercharge your entire team. It’s essentially “Changeling Tribal” with a 5-color toolbox.
Commanders
Morophon, the Boundless is the face and best leader: Name a type (often shapeshifter) to reduce colored costs—frequently to 0—and buff the squad, and it lets you vomit changelings onto the battlefield.
Alternate 5-color options like Rukarumel, Biologist and Tazri, Beacon of Unity can work, but Morophon’s cost reduction and anthem make it the most explosive choice for the stock list.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Everyone’s Invited! has outrageous synergy and can lead to snowball turns. With changelings, every typal payoff always hits, so engines like Kindred Discovery or Realmwalker churn cards, while combat closers like Coat of Arms or class/typal lords stack into sudden lethal. Many effects become asymmetrical board wipes in your favor, and 5-color fixing plus keystones like Maskwood Nexus keep the plan humming.
You’re susceptible to awkward draws without enough creatures to pair with your payoffs, and early sweepers punish the small-body curve before your buffs land. Global anthems like Coat of Arms can also backfire if opponents run a typal deck, so timing and table awareness matter. The deck is powerful but trigger-dense: It takes practice to pilot it cleanly.
Notable Cards
Headliners include Morophon, the Boundless and the typal “Kindred” suite—Kindred Discovery, Kindred Summons, Kindred Dominance—plus the keystone Maskwood Nexus that gives your whole team every creature type. These are exactly the effects that turn changelings into a cohesive engine.
Classics like Taurean Mauler, Realmwalker, and a spread of cheap changelings along with utility lands and party-friendly tools play nicely with the “all types” plan. When this deck assembles even a couple of those engines, it can rocket from a modest board to an unstoppable parade of pumped, evasive, on-type threats in a single turn.
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- Built around a core crew of powerful Shapeshifters and featuring a guestlist of Dryads, Elementals, Faeries, Slivers, Cats and more, this deck is a celebration for every creature type (as long as they love to party). Ten cards and four tokens showcase luminous new art of unexpected friends enjoying a bass-thumping celebration in an enchanted forest until the sun comes up. Plus, powerful effects from cards like Arcane Adaptation, Maskwood Nexus, and Mirror Entity make sure everyone gets along.
- Overwhelm your opponents with a swarm of Shapeshifters, or just invite them in to enjoy the good times—it’s your party.
- New art by Natalie Andrewson, Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe, Caroline Gariba, Rian Gonzales, Nathan Jurevicius, Wojtek Lebski, Alex Negrea, Aeron Ng, Princess Hidir, Jordan Speer, and Meel Tamphanon.
- Contents: 1x Foil Morophon, the Boundless, 1x Foil Raise the Palisade, 1x Foil Bitterblossom, 1x Foil Taurean Mauler, 1x Foil Avenger of Zendikar, 1x Foil Kindred Summons, 1x Foil Tendershoot Dryad, 1x Foil Coat of Arms, 1x Foil Maskwood Nexus, 1x Foil Sol Ring, 4x Foil Shapeshifter tokens, 1x Foil Morophon, the Boundless Display Card, 90x Reprints
#2. Draconic Domination
Draconic Domination is the Commander 2017 5-color dragon precon led by The Ur-Dragon.
Deck Themes
As my favorite one from the list, this 5-color dragon typal deck wants to ramp hard and drop haymakers. Thanks to The Ur-Dragon’s eminence ability, your dragons cost less, so you can curve into threats faster than most “big creature” builds. From there, you swarm the sky with beaters that bring extra value—token makers, damage pings, and combat triggers—to snowball into an explosive late game.
Commanders
The Ur-Dragon is the clear front-runner here. Eminence discounts every dragon you cast, and its attack trigger draws cards and puts free cards into play. The list also gives you other 5-color options: O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami, Ramos, Dragon Engine, and Scion of the Ur-Dragon. Ramos can fuel big burst turns in more combo-leaning builds, and Scion enables clever tutor/copy lines. But out of the box, the best leader for the deck’s plan is still The Ur-Dragon.
Strengths and Weaknesses
On strength, this deck dominates the late game. Your average dragon isn’t just a beater; it carries impact. Think of Scourge of Valkas to burn the table or Utvara Hellkite to double your air force. Being five colors gives you great support, too: There’s solid ramp (e.g., Farseek, Cultivate) and flexible answers like Fractured Identity plus tuned sweepers like Crux of Fate.
The trade-off is a slower start. Many lands enter tapped (tri-lands, Vivids), so awkward draws can stall your colors and curve. You often need setup—rocks like Sol Ring, Darksteel Ingot, and ramp spells—to get rolling. Also, The Ur-Dragon costs 9 mana; you’ll usually win without casting it, but if opponents time sweepers or counters well, a reset can slow you down while you rebuild.
Notable Cards
This precon introduced several Commander staples. The Ur-Dragon and the other C17 commanders debuted eminence, while Wasitora, Nekoru Queen, Territorial Hellkite, and Boneyard Scourge added unique dragon options.
Typal powerhouses Herald's Horn and Kindred Discovery first appeared here, along with Path of Ancestry for fixing and Fractured Identity as premium removal.
Reprints round things out with Scion of the Ur-Dragon, the Tarkir Dragonlords, Fist of Suns, and sweepers like Earthquake. The land base uses tri-lands, Vivids, Command Tower, and orchards to keep the 5-color mana flowing.
#1. From Cute to Brute
From Cute to Brute is another Secret Lair 5-color precon built around transform legends, with Esika, God of the Tree at the helm. Packed with exclusive showcase foils of iconic flip cards, it’s less cohesive than other builds but stands out as a flashy collector’s piece. It takes the #1 spot for style.
Deck Themes
This deck is all about double-faced cards. Each one starts as an innocent “cute” design before it flips into a darker, more powerful version. The art gimmick is the big draw—front sides illustrated in a playful, whimsical style by Nana Qi, and back sides redone in grim, gothic tones by Godmachine. Mechanically, the plan is simple: Play legendary DFCs and flip them into their stronger sides. It doesn’t have a tight synergy like typal decks—it’s more of a greatest-hits collection of famous transform cards.
Commanders
The main leader here is Esika, God of the Tree. Esika gives you fixing and ramp, but the back side is the real payoff: The Prismatic Bridge cheats legendary creatures or planeswalkers into play every turn.
As a backup option, Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can tutor out your legendary toolbox, and it gives the deck more consistency if you’d rather search than gamble with Bridge flips. Both choices work, but Esika fits the intended theme best by letting you assemble your pile of transforming legends with speed.
Strengths and Weaknesses
This precon shines thanks to its star power. Flipping Nicol Bolas, the Ravager into a planeswalker or Liliana, Heretical Healer into a graveyard engine creates huge swings, while legendary density makes cards like Urza's Ruinous Blast more effective. Access to five colors opens versatile removal like Utter End and Time Wipe, and the mana base features tools like The World Tree to help keep things online. It’s a flashy, fun deck built around iconic transformations.
The weaknesses show in its clunky execution. Most of the double-faced cards sit high on the curve without enough ramp, and the flashy mana base struggles with untapped, all-color sources. The transform theme doesn’t really synergize—there’s nothing to smooth flips or recur these cards’ back sides—so the deck feels like a pile of cool cards rather than a streamlined strategy. Interaction is thin, and without consistency, it can fold to your opponents’ faster or more cohesive decks. It’s great as a collector’s item, but shaky as a competitive precon.
Notable Cards
The highlight of From Cute to Brute is its set of exclusive showcase double-faced cards: Archangel Avacyn, Bloodline Keeper, Esika, God of the Tree, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, and Westvale Abbey.
These “cute-to-brute” versions were the selling point, backed by iconic flip-walkers like Kytheon, Hero of Akros, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Liliana, Heretical Healer, and Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh, plus flip-lands like Legion's Landing and Hadana's Climb. Finishers like Zetalpa, Primal Dawn and Sphinx of the Second Sun gave the deck more top-end power.
The support suite was stacked with value too: Chromatic Lantern, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, and Sol Ring for mana, alongside removal like Time Wipe, Utter End, and Beast Within.
High-value reprints like Guardian Project, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain pushed the singles value near $300+. While gameplay was clunky, the combination of iconic cards and unique art cemented this precon as more of a collector’s showpiece than a finely tuned deck.
Commanding Conclusion
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity | Illustration by Alex Konstad
At the end of the day, 5-color Commander precons are some of the flashiest, most ambitious decks you can pick up. Each one brings its own twist to the table, from typal swarms to rainbow good-stuff piles, and they all offer a great way to explore the full color pie without building from scratch.
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