Deck Analysis

Generate a prompt to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

Paste your deck, choose your analysis questions, generate the prompt, and paste back the results. The set-upgrade step is optional.

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Save your work in progress to a zip file you can re-import later.
Resume from a saved session (.zip)

Choose a .zip file you previously downloaded from Step 3 or Step 5. This rehydrates the response JSON and jumps to the matching results step.

Step 1

Paste the deck once for the whole workflow

This deck input powers the analysis packet and the optional set-upgrade packet.

Required
You only need to paste the deck here once. After that, move through the workflow tabs below.

Step 2

Choose the analysis questions and generate the analysis packet

Select the Commander bracket you want to target, then choose the question buckets or individual questions that should be answered in the analysis prompt.

Customize the analysis

Analyze with

What you do:
  1. Choose the target Commander bracket.
  2. Select question buckets, individual questions, or both.
  3. Optional: include sideboard/maybeboard cards as candidate references.
  4. Click Generate Analysis Packet, then copy analysis.txt into your AI.
  5. Ask your AI to return the deck_profile JSON in a fenced ```json block.
  6. Paste that JSON in Step 3 for a formatted summary. (Step 4 set upgrades is optional.)

Knowledge Base note: Browse distilled creator advice in the Knowledge Base, then open any entry to copy a ready-to-paste prompt from its detail page.

How to push back on your AI's conclusions

If your AI makes a bad assumption, challenge the specific conclusion before you paste the deck_profile JSON back here. Ask it to revise the analysis and return an updated deck_profile JSON that reflects your corrections.

Examples: "Re-evaluate this as Bracket 2 Core, not Bracket 3 Upgraded." "You overstated the combo finishers; the deck wins primarily through combat." "Card X is not a weak slot because it is part of the recursion engine."

Best practice: keep the conversation with your AI going until the analysis reflects your corrections, then copy only the latest corrected deck_profile JSON into Step 3.

Optional follow-up JSON refresh prompt

Use this later only if you asked additional questions of your AI after the first analysis response and need it to rebuild the updated deck_profile JSON.

Required before generating

Analysis context

These fields do not change the deck parser. They are extra instructions that get inserted into the analysis and set-upgrade prompts.

  • Format keeps the analysis and upgrade prompts in the right rules context.
  • Deck name gives the prompts a stable label and is also saved with the packet artifacts.
  • Strategy notes tell your AI what the deck is trying to do so it weighs the list against your intended game plan.
  • Meta notes tell your AI what kinds of tables or threats you expect, which changes how it judges weaknesses and upgrades.

If you leave these blank, the prompts still work. Your AI will infer more from the decklist alone.

Current-deck card definitions are always included. These options only add authoritative references for optional candidate cards and keep them labeled as candidates, not active deck cards.

Analysis questions

Select a whole bucket to check all questions under it, or choose individual questions manually.

Step 3

Paste the deck profile JSON and view the analysis results

Paste the fenced deck_profile JSON block or raw JSON payload returned from ChatGPT. You can use a saved JSON file here directly without filling out Steps 1 and 2 again.

Review results

Step 4

Optional: Build the set-upgrade packet

This step is optional. Use it only when you want set-specific upgrade analysis after the main deck analysis is complete. The deck profile JSON from Step 3 is used automatically.

Optional final step
What you do:
  1. Select one set, or paste a condensed set packet.
  2. Click Generate Set Upgrade Packet, then paste set-upgrade-analysis.txt into ChatGPT.
  3. Have ChatGPT return a fenced ```json block (set analysis) plus a fenced ```text block named discussion_summary.txt with per-set notes, recommendations, and answers.
Show condensed set packet override
Optional follow-up JSON refresh prompt

Use this later only if you asked additional questions of your AI after the first set-upgrade response and need it to rebuild the updated set_upgrade_report JSON.

Step 5

Paste the set-upgrade JSON and view the results

Paste the fenced set_upgrade_report JSON block or raw JSON payload returned from ChatGPT. You can use a saved JSON file here directly without filling out earlier steps.

Review results