There's a very specific kind of person who looks at a $300 preconstructed Commander deck and thinks, "you know what this needs?
More." That person has now published a full Multiverse Reforged decklist, and the rest of us are just sitting here pretending we have disposable income.
For the uninitiated, Wizards has been cranking out Commander precons faster than your group can agree on a pizza order.
The Multiverse Reforged line leans hard into cross-plane chaos, and the stock list is already solid.
But "solid" doesn't sell content, so naturally the internet took a perfectly functional deck and reforged it into a mortgage payment.
The headline upgrade engine is, predictably, the mana base.
Whoever built this thing decided that basic lands are for cowards and filled the slots with a rainbow of duals that collectively cost more than your first car.
Nothing says "casual game night" like dropping a land worth more than the rest of the table's combined decks.
Every color got its mandatory "this goes in literally everything" auto-include, because why run a coherent strategy when you can just jam the greatest hits and call it synergy?
The deck now does eleven things and commits to none of them, which is the Commander equivalent of a LinkedIn profile.
The creature suite is where things get genuinely funny.
Half the picks are there because they're objectively powerful, and the other half are there because the builder watched one niche interaction spiral out of control on a Discord call at 2 AM.
That ratio is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and by "heavy lifting" I mean "the deck folds to a single board wipe." What's actually clever is the reanimation and value package.
There's a real engine buried under the bling, and if you proxy the expensive stuff, the list genuinely slaps.
Credit where it's due: this isn't just a pile of good cards.
It's a pile of good cards with a plan, which is more than most of us can say.
The combo lines, though, are a different story.
They require three specific pieces, a full grip of cards, and your opponents politely not interacting for two turns.
In the goldfish world where decklists live, that's a guaranteed win.
At an actual table, that's a guaranteed "in response, I remove your commander, and also, why are you like this." Budget-wise, the whole thing clocks in somewhere between "treat yourself" and "please seek help." If you already own the expensive pieces from years of collecting, congratulations, you're basically printing money.
If you don't, maybe start with the precon and upgrade one card at a time like a functioning adult.
It's chaotic, it's powerful, and it will absolutely win games against people who didn't build their decks around a spreadsheet.
Just don't pretend it's a budget brew, and don't be shocked when your playgroup starts side-eyeing you during the shuffle.
Final Thoughts
Reforge responsibly, or at least reforge with proxies and plausible deniability.