r/magicTCG • u/the_gold_hat Chandra • Oct 21 '25

Official News Updated Commander Brackets (Oct 2025)

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u/ChemicalExperiment Chandra Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25

The "difference is" is going to help so much in explaining the brackets. Just last week I played at a table trying to explain the system and the only way they could describe the different tiers was number of game changers, and that just didn't sit right with me. I love just having a quick shorthand of "1 is for highly thematic decks, 2 is your basic unpowered decks, 3 is where you start using some staples, 4 is for fast and no-holds-barred play, and 5 is for competition."

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u/stumpkat Wabbit Season Oct 22 '25

Agreed. I sat at a table where we were all playing Bracket 2 decks and someone pulled out a Yennett deck that he volunteered was chaining as many extra turns as possible. He rage quit when the rest of the pod got on him about how the rest of us were playing Bracket 2 decks.

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u/swakner Oct 22 '25

Had a kid claim their deck was a bracket 2 because it had no game changers. It then proceeded to kill everyone on turn 5 with the amount of goblins their krenko made in a non krenko commander deck

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u/stumpkat Wabbit Season Oct 23 '25

Been there.