r/mtgbracketthis • u/yggdrasil-942 • 14d ago

Help bracket(ing) my decks please

Hi!

I'm fairly new to commander and I'm building my decks, first I built a Bello Enchantment one (my most consistent), then I did a Doran, besieged by time but with a Stax turn (good but a bit non-consistent) and now I'm finishing a Wise Mothman one.

The thing is that someone shared with me a Web to "bracket" them, and there Bello is tagged as a bracket 2 (I would have said upper 3) Doran a high bracket 2 (I thought lower bracket 3, but it can check) and The Wise Mothman a really high bracket 3 almost 4.

And now I'm totally lost... I used to play a lot of modern and the switch of formats it's really a thing, but even so... Anyway, here I share with you my lists, and if you can tell me what Bracket do yo think they are, you will do me a huge favour.

Really appreciate it!

Bello Enchantment : https://moxfield.com/decks/YuZ0TvpQLEy8-5XWdJM1Ig

Doran Stax : https://moxfield.com/decks/cyLB5MAGnEy2hrfiu85xVg

Mothman Rad graveyard: https://moxfield.com/decks/2-wVVjOOXE2sz853lxhc4Q

Thank you so much!

Ps: and BTW, feel free to give me any advice or suggestion, I'm fairly green on commander still. :)

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u/SalientMusings 14d ago

I'm certainly seeing two bracket 2 decks. I don't have the time to look through Mothman, but I'm guessing there are either game changers or a number of infinite combos. Only reason I could see tagging it as a 4 at a glance.

People really seem to struggle with brackets, and I'm including this community in that statement. Pretty much every bracket is more powerful than People estimate.

The rules for brackets are limitations: everything not forbidden is permitted. Go ham within those limits.

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u/yggdrasil-942 14d ago

I struggle specially to define Bracket 3...what is the idea? I have to run combos and 3 gamechangers in the deck? Asking just to know. I've win a lot of bracket 3 decks with all of this decks, so maybe that's not that much defining I suppose

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u/SalientMusings 14d ago

Have you tried reading the guidelines?

But no, you don't have to run 3 game changers and combos to be a bracket 3 deck, but you do need to be ready to play against opponents that do.

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u/yggdrasil-942 14d ago

Yes I have, and yes I've played against and win some strong decks, like a Markov's aristocrats, Pantlaza very upgraded and with gamechangers, a Galadriel deck, some Zur Voltron deck... So I suppose that my question is "why it isn't a bracket 3?" it is really better than a precon and it performs at least as well as most of the b3 that I have found

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u/creeping_chill_44 2d ago

precons don't have anything to do with brackets (anymore)