What do you more experienced players think of this? I’m kinda bad but this tiering doesn’t really fit my decks, as it puts 9/10 into T1 and the tenth one above T2 but below T3 because it’s got one “game changer” even though it’s definitely not my best-performing deck
I own an FLGS and run casual commander one night a week. As time goes on everyone’s decks start to get more and more powerful. As the decks creep towards cEDH less and less people come in to play until there is no one for a few weeks. Then we go back to casual and repeat. Now having a defined tier list will help keep decks to 1 & 2 with an occasional 3 and maybe 4 for special events.
You don’t have to play 3 Game Changers for your deck to be in bracket 3. I think the “rules” are more like guard rails. It may be more helpful to consider the bracket descriptions to gauge where your decks fall. Just because your high power optimized deck adheres to the “rules” in bracket 1, doesn’t mean it is a bracket 1 deck. As they wrote, this will not protect you from bad actors.
Edit: This is also answered in the FAQ part of the article:
My best deck has no Game Changers and is technically a Bracket 2 deck. Should I play it there?
You should play where you think you belong based on the descriptions. For example, if your deck has no-holds-barred power despite playing zero Game Changers, then you should play in Bracket 4!
I don’t have too much of an idea about actual power of decks since we only play with people in our group of five (we played once against a random at LGS and we had a very bad experience since dude skimmed over the fact that Rofellos is banned and brought a T5 Ulamog against our precons), but reading the descriptions instead of the infographic moved all my decks to T2 and the one with one game changer card should be a T2 as well but it can’t fit since it’s got that lol only two or three other decks in our playgroup are actual T3 by infographic + description
Basically, these tiers are nothing new, and they’re not especially helpful. My strongest and weakest decks are in adjacent tiers, which tells me the whole thing is pointless at best, and harmful at worst because some people will feel justified in saying which tier their deck is, and obliterating the rest of the pod.
If you’re playing with new people, the solution continues to be having a conversation, and these tiers do very little to affect that conversation.
@TheMagicer@MysticKetchup My best performing deck only needs to take out Ancient Tomb to drop back down to tier 1, and I’m not sure I’ve ever drawn it.
What do you more experienced players think of this? I’m kinda bad but this tiering doesn’t really fit my decks, as it puts 9/10 into T1 and the tenth one above T2 but below T3 because it’s got one “game changer” even though it’s definitely not my best-performing deck
I own an FLGS and run casual commander one night a week. As time goes on everyone’s decks start to get more and more powerful. As the decks creep towards cEDH less and less people come in to play until there is no one for a few weeks. Then we go back to casual and repeat. Now having a defined tier list will help keep decks to 1 & 2 with an occasional 3 and maybe 4 for special events.
You don’t have to play 3 Game Changers for your deck to be in bracket 3. I think the “rules” are more like guard rails. It may be more helpful to consider the bracket descriptions to gauge where your decks fall. Just because your high power optimized deck adheres to the “rules” in bracket 1, doesn’t mean it is a bracket 1 deck. As they wrote, this will not protect you from bad actors.
Edit: This is also answered in the FAQ part of the article:
I don’t have too much of an idea about actual power of decks since we only play with people in our group of five (we played once against a random at LGS and we had a very bad experience since dude skimmed over the fact that Rofellos is banned and brought a T5 Ulamog against our precons), but reading the descriptions instead of the infographic moved all my decks to T2 and the one with one game changer card should be a T2 as well but it can’t fit since it’s got that lol only two or three other decks in our playgroup are actual T3 by infographic + description
Basically, these tiers are nothing new, and they’re not especially helpful. My strongest and weakest decks are in adjacent tiers, which tells me the whole thing is pointless at best, and harmful at worst because some people will feel justified in saying which tier their deck is, and obliterating the rest of the pod.
If you’re playing with new people, the solution continues to be having a conversation, and these tiers do very little to affect that conversation.
@TheMagicer @MysticKetchup My best performing deck only needs to take out Ancient Tomb to drop back down to tier 1, and I’m not sure I’ve ever drawn it.