How it has actually done
Not a rating — results from Commander games recorded at a table. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Bracket 2 — Core
A floor, not a verdict — read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100 — a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count; see the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot — 3 slots are outside their band, 6 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 39 | 37 | On target |
| Ramp | 17 | 10 | 7 over |
| Card advantage | 13 | 10 | 3 over |
| Spot removal | 5 | 8 | 3 short |
| Board wipes | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Creatures | 29 | 28 | On target |
| Recursion | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Protection | 5 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 0 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 14 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 3 | — | No target |
| Instants | 9 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 5 | — | No target |
| Counterspells | 5 | — | No target |
| Graveyard hate | 1 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 14 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 1 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 3.12 across 59 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 3
- 2 19
- 3 21
- 4 5
- 5 9
- 6 1
- 7+ 1
The decklist
98 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page — win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.
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Ramp 14
Tokens 10
Card Advantage 8
Spot Removal 5
Counterspell 3
Board Wipe 2
Instant 1
Recursion 1
Protection 1
Enchantment 1
Sorcery 1
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Commander 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord Deck 1 Anger 1 Arcane Denial 1 Arcane Signet 1 Archfiend of Ifnir 1 Barad-dûr 1 Bedevil 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Bone Miser 1 Chaos Warp 1 Chasm Skulker 1 Claim the Precious 1 Command Tower 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Consider 1 Corsairs of Umbar 1 Counterspell 1 Crumbling Necropolis 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Dimir Signet 1 Drown in the Loch 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Faithless Looting 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Gleaming Overseer 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant 1 In the Darkness Bind Them 8 Island 1 Izzet Boilerworks 1 Izzet Signet 1 Lord of the Nazgûl 1 March from the Black Gate 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain 1 Mount Doom 8 Mountain 9 Nazgûl 1 Negate 1 Nightscape Familiar 1 Orcish Siegemaster 1 Palantír of Orthanc 1 Psychosis Crawler 1 Rakdos Carnarium 1 Rakdos Signet 1 Relic of Sauron 1 Rogue's Passage 1 Saruman's Trickery 1 Saruman, the White Hand 1 Seething Landscape 1 Smoldering Marsh 1 Sol Ring 1 Sulfur Falls 1 Sunken Hollow 8 Swamp 1 Swiftfoot Boots 1 Talisman of Creativity 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Talisman of Indulgence 1 Terminate 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 The Mouth of Sauron 1 Uncivil Unrest 1 Vizier of the Scorpion 1 Warg Rider 1 Windfall 1 Witch-king of Angmar 1 Worn Powerstone
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