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)
They're logistically complex, requiring either sleeves or checklist cards
The answer is what I consider to be the biggest danger to the game: complexity creep
Correctly identifying what each die on an opponents creatures represented made this a resoundingly unfun experience, and Wizards has focused on only using +1/+1 or -1/-1 counters at any given time since then
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