Playing fair and hoping to just outmuscle opponents with a wide board makes you too dependent on a good start and too susceptible to board wipes
YES 131 Yanakh l'incorruptible Yanakh the Incorruptible Crisse, Yann solo Privately produced card 2000-
Morgul-Knife (Shadowspear) Exxaxl: Shadowspear was one of the cards I first noticed becoming expensive because of Commander
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die These feature the language of the High Elves, Quenya, in Tengwar letterforms
Locally, here in Malaysia at Classroom Cafe an LGS store we go to (in fact, got our decks at) during the pre-order phase, it was going roughly RM 157.5- RM 175 per deck (if you pre-ordered the bundle of 4 pre-cons)
Of course, drawing up to seven cards is nothing to sniff at, but when youre paying this much mana on your commander you want it to do a little more than that