The decklist
100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does, lands last. Every name links to its own page, with its win rate and the commanders it's most played under.
Ramp 13
Card Advantage 12
Tokens 8
Creature 8
Recursion 7
Spot Removal 6
Enchantment 3
Sacrifice Outlet 2
Counterspell 2
Sorcery 1
Board Wipe 1
Tutor 1
Stax 1
Instant 1
Land 34
- 1 A.I.M. Labs
- 1 Canyon Slough
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Goblin-town
- 1 Hell's Kitchen
- 1 Island
- 1 Island
- 1 Island
- 2 Island
- 1 Mountain
- 2 Mountain
- 4 Mountain
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Rakdos Carnarium
- 1 Smoldering Marsh
- 1 Spectacle Summit
- 1 Stark Industries
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 3 Swamp
- 1 The Lonely Mountain
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Buy this deck on TCGplayerHow it has actually done
These are results from Commander games recorded at a table, not a rating. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Bracket 3: Upgraded
This is a floor, 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.
Game Changers in this list
Running 1 stax piece. See what stax means.
- 2 Game Changers — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100, because a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count. See the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot: 4 slots are outside their band, 5 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 34 | 37 | 3 short |
| Ramp | 13 | 10 | 3 over |
| Card advantage | 15 | 10 | 5 over |
| Spot removal | 7 | 8 | On target |
| Board wipes | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Creatures | 27 | 28 | On target |
| Recursion | 8 | 3 | 5 over |
| Protection | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 1 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 12 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 9 | — | No target |
| Instants | 7 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 16 | — | No target |
| Planeswalkers | 2 | — | No target |
| Counterspells | 3 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 15 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 3 | — | No target |
| Stax pieces | 1 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 3.30 across 66 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 20
- 3 22
- 4 8
- 5 5
- 6 6
- 7+ 2
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Commander 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord Deck 1 A.I.M. Labs 1 Aberrant Return 1 Along the Crooked Way 1 Arcane Signet 1 Archfiend of Ifnir 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin 1 Balin, Loremaster 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Bolg of the North 1 Bolg's Company 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern 1 Call of the Ring 1 Canyon Slough 1 Command Tower 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Confusticate and Bebother 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Disdainful Stroke 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town 1 Dragonskull Summit 1 Dread Return 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader 1 Enchanted River's Grasp 1 Everlasting Torment 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Gandalf, Spark Starter 1 Gathering of Darkness 1 Glóin the Mighty 1 Goblin Plate Mail 1 Goblin-town 1 Goblin-town Flunkies 1 Gollum, Riddle Master 1 Gollum, Silent Slinker 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin 1 Head of the Hunt 1 Hell's Kitchen 1 Island 1 Island 1 Island 2 Island 1 Izzet Signet 1 Jeska's Will 1 Kulrath Knight 1 Lake-town Mariners 1 Lasting Tarfire 1 Liliana, Death Wielder 1 Mirkwood Bats 1 Misty Mountains Raider 1 Mountain 2 Mountain 4 Mountain 1 My Precious 1 Nazgûl 1 Nazgûl 1 Old Fat Spider Can't See Me 1 Orcish Bowmasters 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver 1 Path of Ancestry 1 Rage into the Valley 1 Rakdos Carnarium 1 Rakdos Signet 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer 1 Rhovanion Rampager 1 Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll 1 Smaug's Fury 1 Smoldering Marsh 1 Sol Ring 1 Spectacle Summit 1 Stark Industries 1 Stir Up Trouble 1 Stormcarved Coast 1 Swamp 1 Swamp 2 Swamp 1 Swamp 3 Swamp 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Talisman of Indulgence 1 Terminate 1 The Black Arrow 1 The Great Goblin 1 The Lonely Mountain 1 Thranduil's Decree 1 Thrór's Map 1 Tidings of War 1 Troop of Ponies 1 Zombify
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