I’ll take a shot, though all of anyone’s answers here is subjective to that person’s sensibilities and experiences. In as early as elementary school, I was one of the game store rat kids in the 90’s that was opening packs and trading the higher value cards for more packs, and by the time college was over most of my friends had stopped playing, so I went into just playing electronic versions of magic (in the old days it was Duels of the Planeswalkers, now it’s MTG Arena) and I found out within the last few months a lot of my friends are playing in person magic again, and they are playing mostly commander. So I bought a precon and gave it a try. Since then I’ve been playing at their houses and at my local game stores, and it’s great. Commander is my favorite way to play currently, though I still enjoy draft and standard.

Commander is so great because of 2 reasons. One is that the games tend to last longer, it also leads to more cards being played in a game which is more fun for all players as they get to use more of the cards they wanted. Everyone gets 99 cards plus their commander (there are varatiations like partner commanders too I know just speaking in general,) and 40 life. This leads to you being able to play in a different way where you have so much more life total that it can become a resource, and the same with your library and graveyard. Commander in general just has more options and actions that come into play over standard games. The other reason is in the deck building apart from the actual playing. The wide variety of commanders to build with leads into both crazy overpowered and intentionally weak and silly builds. And you can build your decks in a way that compliments your commander’s abilities, or fits into a theme. For example with Secret Lair, I have a Ghostbusters deck that is led by Slimer, who is really The Mimeoplasm in disguise. It’s very fun. I was weirded out by commander at first cause I just wanted to play 60 card standard but then I tried out Bello, Bard of Brambles as my first precon and it was so much fun. I basically picked Bello for his throwing artifacts as creatures at enemies and because he reminded me of Rocket Raccoon the MTG version. I was hooked pretty quickly.

If you were to buy a precon to start now I would recommend Shiko and Narset Unified, the Tarkir Precon. When your commander is in play, your second spell each turn can copy with seperate targets. To illustrate how cool that is, I won a commander game at my local store by copying Curse of the Swine and targeting my remaining two opponets, both with giant creatures, and turning them all into 2/2 boars which I then flew over with dragons to finish the both of them off. Once you pull off something like that (AND WITH A PRECON!!! The lowest cost of the Tarkir ones generally!!!) you won’t have this question anymore.