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On the Future of Commander (WotC taking over management of the format, considering adding more concrete power level rankings) (magic.wizards.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For example, you could imagine bracket one has cards that easily can go in any deck, like Swords to Plowshares , Grave Titan , and Cultivate , ...

Swords to Plowshares, which is currently banned from Historic and will probably never be printed into Standard again, is in the lowest power bracket? Am I misunderstanding the purpose of these brackets?

I know one-for-one removal isn't as good in Commander as it is in two-player formats, but even so. Adding Swords or Grave Titan would noticeably raise the power level of every Commander deck I've ever built. Apparently my decks are in bracket zero.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Well it is cheap so that means that it is lower power.

Bracket 4 will be for powerful cards like Drop of Honey.

Bracket 1 will be for more balanced cards like Porphyry Nodes.