Just remember, you can answer most problems provided youve built your deck properly, so identify the tempo of the game and use it to your advantage
For casual games kitchen-table Magic, Commander pods, and playtesting a deck before you buy singles proxies are widely accepted, and most casual playgroups are happy to allow them
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Elven Council Commander Deck set includes 1 ready-to-play Green-Blue deck of 100 Magic cards (2 Traditional Foil Legendary Creature cards, 98 nonfoil cards), a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack (contains 1 Traditional Foil or nonfoil special treatment card of rarity Rare or higher and 1 Traditional Foil special treatment Common or Uncommon card), 1 foil-etched Display Commander (a thick cardstock copy of the commander card with foil etched into the card's border and art), 10 double-sided tokens, 1 Helper card, 1 deck box (can hold 100 sleeved cards), 1 Life Wheel, 1 strategy insert, and 1 reference card
Rounding things out for this section, Id like to mention Oblation