Commander (2013)

Oh absolutely. The 2014 ones were very good decks to pimp out but they were all (with the exception of the blue one which didn't seem to have a major direction and tbe black one which - as black tends to be - was basically a good stuff deck) very much directed by their legends.

White had you building to highlight the equipment theme that Nahiri proposed - so Stoneforge Mystic, Sword of XX and XX etc. Or you'd build basically the same deck but leaning into white tokens in order to best use Ajani's more annoying brother (Jezzail Goldmane) along with Mirror Entity etc.

Green had you building for elves - either with Freyalise or Erzui OR a land deck (which really wasn't supported that well in the pre-con pack itself)

Red pushed artifacts and / or a little graveyard manipulation with Feldon.

The thing they all had in common was that the pre-con pushed a direction (weenies, Elves or Artifacts along with Black's many Sac effects and blue's general annoyance factor) whereas the 2013 decks actually pushed a commander and gave you bolt on options from the deck around them. So to pick up and play they weren't as fast as their successors but they were actually better constructed decks I think and had MANY more options to be customised around the 3 separate legends that appeared in each shard's colors.

In Naya - for example - all builds are going to be creature heavy and aim to attack for the win, however Gaji, honored one supports a low costed aggro option by buffing up the creatures you have out - token subthemes work well with this as squirrel nest effectively churns out what will be 3/1 attacking tokens each turn which Rhys / Growing Ranks / Parallel lives etc can make into a very nasty army. Mayael however goes the other way and rewards very large creatures and a ramp game to get her out and start dropping game enders like Craterhoof Behemeth etc.

The midrange commander in the Naya pack is Marath, will of the wild. It can be used as a repeatable buff for other cards early in the game allowing you to ramp into a much bigger commander later on. Once it's come out a few times your opponents become hesitent about killing it again as that 21 commander damage becomes 3 hits on the third casting. Your subtheme options here include anything and everything that can abuse / generate +1/+1 counters - of which MTG has MANY options.

So yeah, compare all that with the three different ways to run the same elf deck offered by the 2014 stuff.

Much better decks.