I played my first game with the new pre-cons using Greven as my commander. He's cool on paper, and probably deserving to be built around on his lonesome, but he was completely ineffectual leading the Rakdos deck against my pod of friends. Chainer, on the other hand, was a royal blast. I can't remember the last time I had that much fun playing a pre-con. How many times have you guys managed to play and use Magus of the Wheel in a single match?
Although I love Greven and hes my second fav commander from the set after Krrik, he would be pretty bad at leading the stock precon. On the Flip side, I really don't like Anje but in terms of leading the stock precon she's probably the best option
I dunno. The deck's win-con is sheer value, and while Anje can sometimes get more Madness value than Chainer in a single turn, Chainer is still a viable Madness enabler on his own, while also being able to get your best critters back from the 'yard.
My issue with chainer was not having any creatues I wanted to bring back or no creatures in the yard at all so I was just discarding to enable madness, which is fine but with Anje you also get to draw after which is basically always good.
Edit: Chainer is amazing and better then Anje imo but you're gonna need to ensure there is a high enough cresture count for there to always be something relevant in the yard as well as maybe some dredge or something.
BChainer, Dementia Master(Big Mana/Reanimator)
BRRakdos, The Showstopper (Mass Life Loss/Ramp)
BUThe Scarab God (Zombie Tribal/Control)
BWKarlov of the Ghost Council (Life Gain)
BGJarad, Golgari Lich Lord (Stompy/Dredge)
BRGProssh, Skyraider of Kher (Tokens/Non-infinite Combo)
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BChainer, Dementia Master(Big Mana/Reanimator)
BRRakdos, The Showstopper (Mass Life Loss/Ramp)
BUThe Scarab God (Zombie Tribal/Control)
BWKarlov of the Ghost Council (Life Gain)
BGJarad, Golgari Lich Lord (Stompy/Dredge)
BRGProssh, Skyraider of Kher (Tokens/Non-infinite Combo)
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#BLM
#DefundThePolice
Edit: Chainer is amazing and better then Anje imo but you're gonna need to ensure there is a high enough cresture count for there to always be something relevant in the yard as well as maybe some dredge or something.
BChainer, Dementia Master(Big Mana/Reanimator)
BRRakdos, The Showstopper (Mass Life Loss/Ramp)
BUThe Scarab God (Zombie Tribal/Control)
BWKarlov of the Ghost Council (Life Gain)
BGJarad, Golgari Lich Lord (Stompy/Dredge)
BRGProssh, Skyraider of Kher (Tokens/Non-infinite Combo)