The Foundations Commander decks are coming back for a second round, and every one of their five commanders is getting an all-new look. Wizards of the Coast confirmed that when the five mono-colored precons return alongside Reality Fracture on October 2, 2026, each ready-to-play deck ships with a brand-new traditional foil, borderless commander card. The rest of each 100-card deck is still a reprint-heavy toolbox built to teach new players Commander, but the face of every deck just got a total makeover. Here’s every new commander art, deck by deck.
Each Foundations Commander deck has an MSRP of $29.99 and includes a ready-to-play 100-card deck, 10 double-sided tokens, a reference card, and a deck box, on top of that new-art foil commander. All five are built around a single, easy-to-learn strategy, so if you’re picking one up to learn the format (or to hand to a friend who wants to learn), the theme tells you almost everything you need to know going in.
Giada, Font of Hope — Calling All Angels (White)
Giada first showed up as one of New Capenna’s brightest hopes, and her new portrait leans fully into that: wings spread wide, robes caught mid-motion, standing in a haze of pink and violet light. The new illustration comes from Johannes Voss, replacing the Kai Carpenter art most players know from Streets of New Capenna and the original 2024 Foundations printing.
Mechanically, Giada hasn’t changed a bit. She still gives flying and vigilance for two mana, and every other Angel you cast enters with a bonus +1/+1 counter for each Angel you already control, so the deck snowballs fast once a couple of Angels land. Calling All Angels is built to be Commander’s most straightforward beatdown plan: cast Angels, watch them get bigger, attack in the air.
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Sai, Master Thopterist — Keen Engineering (Blue)
Sai’s new art, painted by Bryan Sola, frames the artificer inside an ornate clockwork archway, tiny Thopters spinning off his fingertips as he works. It’s a much more grounded, inventor’s-workshop take than the moodier Adam Paquette version players have seen since Kaladesh.
The card itself is unchanged: every artifact spell you cast makes a 1/1 flying Thopter, and you can sacrifice two artifacts to draw a card whenever you need to refill. Keen Engineering wants you to jam as many cheap artifacts as possible, then either swarm with Thopter tokens or dig for a bigger payoff with Sai’s card draw.
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Ghoulcaller Gisa — Wretched Ranks (Black)
Miguel Mercado’s new Gisa is pure Innistrad horror: full moon overhead, a crooked staff in hand, and a wall of shambling Zombies rising out of the dark behind her. It’s a noticeably creepier take than her Karla Ortiz Commander Masters art, and it fits the deck’s theme better for it.
Gisa still does exactly what she’s always done: sacrifice another creature to make that many 2/2 Zombie tokens, based on its power. Wretched Ranks pairs her with sacrifice outlets and big-bodied creatures so every sacrifice turns into a wave of Zombies, then loops bodies back from the graveyard to do it again.
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Lathliss, Dragon Queen — Reign of Dragons (Red)
Zoltan Boros gives Lathliss a full banking turn across a burning mountain skyline, wings thrown wide and jaw open mid-roar. It’s a far more dynamic pose than her previous Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander art by Alex Konstad, and it reads great even at a small size.
Her ability is still the engine of the deck: every other nontoken Dragon that enters under your control makes you a 5/5 flying Dragon token, and she can pump your whole board with red mana in a pinch. Reign of Dragons leans on Treasure tokens to ramp into its biggest Dragons faster, then turns every Dragon you cast into two threats instead of one.
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Ghalta, Primal Hunger — Tramplesaurus Rex (Green)
Raph Lomotan’s new Ghalta is caught mid-roar in a dense jungle canopy, pterosaurs scattering overhead. It swaps out Chase Stone’s more static Foundations pose for something a lot more predatory, which suits a 12/12 that’s designed to hit the board way ahead of schedule.
Ghalta still costs {X} less based on the total power of creatures you already control, so in a green deck full of big bodies she can come down shockingly early for a 12-mana Trampler. Tramplesaurus Rex is built entirely around that math: play big creatures, cheat Ghalta in early, and start trampling over blockers.
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What’s in Every Foundations Commander Deck
All five decks share the same contents, just with different colors and cards:
- 1 ready-to-play 100-card Commander deck
- 1 traditional foil face commander with new, borderless art
- 99 non-foil cards
- 10 non-foil double-sided tokens
- 1 reference card
- 1 deck box
Want all five decks?
Wizards has said the full decklists will roll out over the next couple of weeks ahead of the October 2 release, so expect spoilers for the other 99 cards in each deck to trickle in between now and launch.
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Final Verdict
None of these five commanders got a mechanical update, and that’s the point: Foundations Commander was always meant to be the easiest on-ramp into Commander, and Wizards clearly decided the best way to bring it back was to keep the strategies simple and just make the decks look better doing it. Giada, Sai, Gisa, Lathliss, and Ghalta were already solid picks for new players or a quick pickup-game; now they’re also five of the better-looking new-player commanders Wizards has put out in a while. If you’ve been waiting to start a Commander collection, October 2 is a good day to jump in.
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