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Notes on Commander bracket classification: how the ratings are measured, what the data says, and what changed in the app.
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How bad are precon manabases? We diagnosed all 169
Everyone says the first upgrade to any precon is the manabase. We ran all 169 official precons through our mana engine. Not one came back clean, and the average runs 8 lands that always enter tapped.
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Are Commander precons Bracket 2? We rated all 169
WotC decoupled precons from Bracket 2 last October. So we ran every official precon from 2011 to 2026 through our engine. 128 are Bracket 2, 41 are Bracket 3, none are Bracket 4.
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The Hobbit precon Wizards never made
The Hobbit shipped with zero Commander precons, so we built our own. $75, the set's most popular commander, and a coherent Bracket 2 deck ready for a kitchen table.
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We built the top 5 Hobbit commanders on release day
The Hobbit hit shelves today. We pointed the deck builder at the five most-built new commanders on EDHREC and let the bracket engine judge what came out.
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How accurate are Commander bracket checkers?
Every bracket checker claims to be accurate. Almost none say what they measured against. Here is our full corpus, our exact-match rate, and the cohort where we look worst.