Bracket Check
Classify a Commander deck into its official 1-5 bracket and balance it toward a target — the classification is computed locally, no AI needed.
How it works
The official bracket system (effective late 2025) sorts decks by what they do, not how strong each card is: how many Game Changers they run, whether they pack a two-card win combo, and whether they lean on mass land denial, extra turns, or mass extra-card draw. There is no separate tutor-count gate — the old "count your tutors" rule was dropped in 2025 — but specific powerful tutors such as Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor appear on the official Game Changers list and still count. Pick a target bracket and we list the specific cards pushing you over it, plus starter cuts — then a copy-ready prompt has an AI refine them into fair swaps.
How brackets are determined
The official Commander bracket system (WotC Brackets Beta, October 2025) classifies decks by measurable signals — not raw card power. The four signals are:
- Game Changers — cards on the official WotC Game Changers list. Three or fewer keeps a deck in Bracket 3; four or more pushes to Bracket 4; ten or more (product heuristic) signals Bracket 5 territory.
- Two-card win combos — any pair of cards that produces an automatic win when assembled. A single two-card win combo hard-floors a deck at Bracket 4.
- Mass land denial — cards like Armageddon that destroy all lands at once. Any MLD card hard-floors at Bracket 4.
- Extra turns — informational; does not change the bracket number per the current WotC rubric.
There is no separate tutor-count gate: the October 2025 update dropped the old tutor-density rule. However, specific powerful tutors such as Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Worldly Tutor appear on the official Game Changers list and still count as Game Changers.
Bracket 1 (Exhibition) is self-declared and is never auto-assigned. Zero signals defaults to Bracket 2 (Core).
The classification is computed directly in DeckFlow — no AI needed for the bracket number itself. The AI prompt is only for the optional balancer step (fair swaps to reach a target bracket).